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On Thursday, a 21-year-old US citizen claiming to be the attacker who stole data on more than 50 million T-Mobile customers called the telecom's security "Awful." As of Aug. 18, T-Mobile had estimated the total number of ripped-off records to be ~40 million: a number that rose to ~50 million on Aug. 20 and could double if the purported thief is true to his word.
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.
Today, T-Mobile's CEO Mike Sievert said that the hackers behind the carrier's latest massive data breach were able to brute force their way through T-Mobile's network after gaining access to testing environments. In 2018, info belonging to millions of T-Mobile customers was accessed by hackers.
Seems that 47 million customers were affected. Surprising no one, T-Mobile had awful security. I’ve lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked.
Using data gathered by its Privacy Checker website, Kaspersky has been able to pinpoint areas of concern for visitors seeking to improve their privacy posture. Using data gathered over nearly two years, Kaspersky said that its Privacy Checker website indicates that most visitors are concerned over mobile operating system privacy and the privacy of their data captured by Google.
The T-Mobile data breach keeps getting worse as an update to their investigation now reveals that cyberattack exposed over 54 million individuals' data. The hacker said that the stolen database contains the data for approximately 100 million T-Mobile customers.
In response to a breach that compromised the personal data of millions of subscribers, T-Mobile customers should change their password and PIN and set up two-step verification. A cyberattack against T-Mobile has resulted in the theft and compromise of certain personal data of almost 50 million people.
You know, another fresh look at patching to make sure that there isn't, you know, as little porous of a situation as there can be. Jennifer Bisceglie: To me, I think to your point, is it different servers, different containers? There's lots of different technologies that, you know, can separate these things.
A cyberattack against T-Mobile has compromised the personal information of almost 50 million people, according to the carrier. In an update posted on Tuesday, the company said that certain customer data had been accessed and stolen by unauthorized individuals and that the data did include some personal information for a wide range of customers.