Security News > 2021 > August > T-Mobile CEO: Hacker brute-forced his way through our network
Today, T-Mobile's CEO Mike Sievert said that the hacker behind the carrier's latest massive data breach brute forced his way through T-Mobile's network after gaining access to testing environments.
Sievert added that, following an investigation supported by Mandiant security experts, the company closed the access points used by the hacker to breach T-Mobile's network.
In 2018, info belonging to millions of T-Mobile customers was accessed by hackers.
Hacker makes fun of T-Mobile's 'awful' security.
After hacking into their Washington state data center, he purportedly gained access to credentials for more than 100 servers on T-Mobile's network.
According to Binns' claims, the initial attack vector used to breach the T-Mobile network was an Internet-exposed and unprotected router.
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