Security News

Hacker claims to steal data of 100 million T-mobile customers
2021-08-15 22:27

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.

T-Mobile discloses data breach after SIM swapping attacks
2021-02-26 20:18

American telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unknown number of customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The FBI shared guidance on how to defend against SIM swapping following an increase in the number of SIM hijacking attacks targeting cryptocurrency adopters and investors.

T-Mobile Faces Yet Another Data Breach
2021-01-04 17:09

T-Mobile USA has reported a data breach - its fourth in three years. The wireless carrier disclosed the breach last week via its website, saying that it detected and shut down "Malicious, unauthorized access to some information" related to T-Mobile accounts.

T-Mobile data breach exposed phone numbers, call records
2020-12-30 12:04

T-Mobile has announced a data breach exposing customers' proprietary network information, including phone numbers and call records. After bringing in a cybersecurity firm to perform an investigation, T-Mobile found that threat actors gained access to the telecommunications information generated by customers, known as CPNI. The information exposed in this breach includes phone numbers, call records, and the number of lines on an account.

T-Mobile Outage Mistaken for Massive DDoS Attack on U.S.
2020-06-16 08:30

Wireless carrier T-Mobile on Monday suffered a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers as well, and it ended up being reported as a "Massive" distributed denial of service attack. Other carriers were also affected by the incident, but reportedly blamed the experienced technical issues on the outage impacting T-Mobile's network.

Staffer emails compromised and customer details exposed in T-Mobile US's third security whoopsie in as many years
2020-03-05 19:00

T-Mobile US was hacked by miscreants who may have stolen some customer information. The hackers gained access to employee email accounts, which contained customer account information.

T-Mobile Notifying Customers of Data Breach
2020-03-05 12:00

Wireless carrier T-Mobile is sending notifications to its customers to inform them of a data breach that resulted in some of their personal information being compromised. Because some of these accounts contained account information for T-Mobile customers and employees, the attack essentially resulted in that data being accessed by a third-party.

Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Employee' Email Accounts and Steal User' Data
2020-03-05 08:34

US-based telecom giant T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach incident that recently exposed personal and accounts information of both its employees and customers to unknown hackers. What happened? In a breach notification posted on its website, T-Mobile today said its cybersecurity team recently discovered a sophisticated cyberattack against the email accounts of some of its employees that resulted in unauthorized access to the sensitive information contained in it, including details for its customers and other employees.

T-Mobile Says Prepaid Accounts Breached
2019-11-25 13:33

Contact, Account Data for More Than 1 Million Customers LeakedT-Mobile says it suffered a breach of prepaid accounts as a result of unauthorized access to its systems. The exposed data includes...

T-Mobile US hacked, Monero wallet app infected, public info records on 1.2bn people leak from database...
2019-11-23 10:06

...OnePlus also compromised, and much more Roundup Time for another roundup of all the security news that's fit to print and that we haven't covered yet.…