T-Mobile investigates massive potential data breach
T-Mobile breach reportedly affects 100 million customers
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A hacker appears to be selling personally identifiable information (PII) relating to millions of US-basedT-Mobilecustomers on an underground forum.
While the forum post doesn’t say the data belongs to T-Mobile explicitly, the seller toldMotherboardthey obtained the information by breaching the telecom company’sservers.
The pool of data reportedly includes the social security numbers (SSN), phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver license (DL) information of roughly 100 million T-Mobile customers.
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Under investigation
The hacker has put up less than a third of the stolen data with SSN and DL details for sale on the dark web - for the price of sixbitcoin(about $270,000) - with the intent to sell the rest of thedatabaseprivately.
Responding to reports, T-Mobile issued a statement claiming that it is investigating the potential breach.
“We are aware of claims made in an underground forum and have been actively investigating their validity. We do not have any additional information to share at this time,” the company toldMotherboard.
Interestingly, the hacker claims that T-Mobile is aware of the breach since the company has sealed their access to the breached servers.
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“I think they already found out because we lost access to the backdoored servers,” the seller toldMotherboardin an online chat.
T-Mobile did not immediately respond toTechRadar Pro’s request for confirmation of the breach.
ViaMotherboard
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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