The operator faced a hacker attack. Data from 100 million users is at risk

The American mobile operator T-Mobile recently experienced a huge scandal. According to the Phone Arena website, the second largest operator in the USA was to experience an attack that affects 100 million people. An offer selling personal data of users of the company’s services was to be published on an Internet forum.

The hacker sells the private data of a huge number of people for valuable cryptocurrency. T-Mobile is finding out more information

The leak was to include telephone numbers, names, residential addresses, social security numbers, as well as the unique IMEI numbers available on each telephone. Other stolen data includes information on driving licenses. All information indicates that these are T-Mobile’s customers. The attacker sold “full information about T-Mobile USA’s customers.” He also revealed that he drew data from several servers of the company.

Do you know how much the “seller” asked for all user data? Now 6 bitcoins. In terms of speech, it is about 240,000 euros (the value of the cryptocurrency tends to change radically over time). At this cost, you could potentially misuse 30 million data from driver’s licenses or social security cards. T-Mobile briefly commented on the problems that arose:

“We are aware of the statements made in the forum and are actively verifying their validity. We currently have no further information to share. ”

Despite the fact that the attacker, or a group of several attackers has already been expelled from the forum, they claim that the stolen data are backed up in several places. Finally, we mention that T-Mobile did not get into similar problems for the first time. In March last year, a group known as “sophisticated hackers” managed to obtain the personal data of some T-Mobile customers before their cyber workers were able to stop them. For those who use the services of the T-Mobile operator on the American continent, this is very unpleasant news. We are sure that their investigation will be more interesting than anyone else’s.