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The massive breach impacts roughly 7.8 million T-Mobile postpaid customers, 850,000 T-Mobile prepaid users, and approximately 40 million former or prospective ones. Adding it all up, the attackers stole records belonging to 48.6 million individuals, including current postpaid and prepaid users, as well as former or prospective customers.
T-Mobile has confirmed that attackers who recently breached its servers stole files containing the personal information of over 8.6 million current customers. The massive breach impacts roughly 7.8 million T-Mobile postpaid customers, 850,000 T-Mobile prepaid users, and approximately 40 million former or prospective ones.
In the wake of the recent claims that T-Mobile U.S. has suffered a massive data breach and the consequent industry reactions, the company has shared additional information its internal investigation has uncovered. "Yesterday, we were able to verify that a subset of T-Mobile data had been accessed by unauthorized individuals. We also began coordination with law enforcement as our forensic investigation continued," T-Mobile explained.
T-Mobile is investigating a claim that as many as 100 million accounts may have been compromised in a data breach."We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved. We are confident that the entry point used to gain access has been closed, and we are continuing our deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed."
Communications giant T-Mobile said today it is investigating the extent of a breach that hackers claim has exposed sensitive personal data on 100 million T-Mobile USA customers, in many cases including the name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, phone number, security PINs and details that uniquely identify each customer's mobile device. On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile.
T-Mobile on Monday acknowledged a breach of customer information after a hacker group claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of the operator's US customers and offered some of the data on the dark web. The US wireless operator said it could not determine the number of customers impacted but that it had begun a "Deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed."
T-Mobile has confirmed that threat actors hacked their servers in a recent cyber attack but still investigate whether customer data was stolen.Yesterday, news broke that a threat actor was selling the alleged personal data for 100 million T-Mobile customers after they breached database servers operated by the mobile network.
T-Mobile US is investigating claims that highly sensitive personal data of 100 million customers has been stolen and peddled via the dark web. The seller said it's likely T-Mobile US is up to speed on the security breach because a backdoor used to exfiltrate this data from the telco's servers had been closed.
Even if T-Mobile hasn't yet confirmed the breach, T-Mobile customers would be wise to change their security PINs, given that laundry list of details that were purportedly exposed. The attacker told BleepingComputer that T-Mobile's "Entire IMEI history database going back to 2004 was stolen." IMEI is a unique 15-digit code that precisely identifies a mobile device with the SIM card input, and an IMSI is a unique number is a unique number that identifies every user of a cellular network.
A threat actor claims to have hacked T-Mobile's servers and stolen databases containing the personal data of approximately 100 million customers. The alleged data breach first surfaced on a hacking forum yesterday after the threat actor claimed to be selling a database for six bitcoin containing birth dates, driver's license numbers, and social security numbers for 30 million people.