US telecommunications giant T-Mobile suffers a data breach exposing the personal data of over 100 million customers on an underground forum.
- Personal data of over 100 million T-Mobile users have been exposed on an underground forum.
- In the forum, the hackers ask for 6 Bitcoins ($270,000) for a subset of the data.
US telecommunications giant T-Mobile suffers a data breach exposing the personal data of over 100 million customers on an underground forum.
The news was first reported by Motherboard, explaining that they could verify the data samples provided by the threat actor belonged to T-Mobile customers.
The seller told Motherboard that the data was obtained by compromising multiple servers related to T-Mobile.
The Motherboard has obtained samples of the data available for sale and confirmed they contained information on T-Mobile customers.
The threat actor claims to have hacked into T-Mobile's production, staging, and development servers two weeks ago, including an Oracle database server comprising customer data.
This stolen data contains customer data, including customers' IMSI, IMEI, customer names, phone numbers, security PINs, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, and date of birth.
When asked if they tried to ransom the stolen data to T-Mobile, the threat actors said they never reached the company and chose to sell it on forums where they already have interested buyers.
According to BleepingComputer, when we contacted T-Mobile about the sale of this data, they stated they are actively investigating it.
“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, ” T-Mobile told BleepingComputer.
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