T-Mobile breach

August 18, 2021

T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People

This post was originally published on this site T-Mobile warned Monday that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen T-Mobile customer records went up for sale in the cybercrime underground. On Monday evening, T-Mobile said a “highly sophisticated” attack against its network led to the breach of data on millions of customers. “Our preliminary analysis is that approximately 7.8 million current […]
April 12, 2022

RaidForums Get Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

This post was originally published on this siteThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums — 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho, of Portugal — with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The “raid” in RaidForums is a nod to the community’s humble beginnings in 2015, when it was primarily an […]
January 19, 2023

New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

This post was originally published on this siteT-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts. Image: customink.com In a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, T-Mobile said a “bad actor” abused an application programming interface (API) to hoover up data on roughly 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts. The data stolen included customer […]