T-Mobile investigates allegations of massive customer data breach
T-Mobile investigates allegations of massive customer data breach
By UK Time News - August 16, 2021022
T-Mobile is investigating a claim over an online forum article that says the personal data of more than 100 million users has been breached, the company said.
“We are aware of the claims made in an underground forum and are actively investigating their validity. We have no further information to share at this time,” a T-Mobile spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.
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US-based digital media outlet Vice first reported the data breach allegations. Reuters was unable to verify the veracity of the forum post.
According to Vice’s Motherboard report, the forum post did not mention T-Mobile, but the hacker told Vice that he had obtained data from over 100 million people and the data was coming from T- servers. Mobile.
The data included information such as social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses and driver’s license information, the report added.
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In the online forum, the hacker requests 6 Bitcoin for a subset of data containing 30 million social security and driver’s license numbers, while the rest of the data is sold privately, according to the Vice report. The price of Bitcoin in India stood at Rs. 36.53 lakhs at 10:00 am IST on August 16th.
© Thomson Reuters 2021
By UK Time News - August 16, 2021022
T-Mobile is investigating a claim over an online forum article that says the personal data of more than 100 million users has been breached, the company said.
“We are aware of the claims made in an underground forum and are actively investigating their validity. We have no further information to share at this time,” a T-Mobile spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.
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US-based digital media outlet Vice first reported the data breach allegations. Reuters was unable to verify the veracity of the forum post.
According to Vice’s Motherboard report, the forum post did not mention T-Mobile, but the hacker told Vice that he had obtained data from over 100 million people and the data was coming from T- servers. Mobile.
The data included information such as social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses and driver’s license information, the report added.
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In the online forum, the hacker requests 6 Bitcoin for a subset of data containing 30 million social security and driver’s license numbers, while the rest of the data is sold privately, according to the Vice report. The price of Bitcoin in India stood at Rs. 36.53 lakhs at 10:00 am IST on August 16th.
© Thomson Reuters 2021
