We’ve long heard of stories of wireless carriers getting hacked and discovering it too late. This time, however, it’s time to give credit where it is due: T-Mobile was able to catch a cyberattack in progress and shut it down before customer records could be accessed. As reported by Bloomberg, the Un-carrier got to detect suspicious activity. True enough, they caught the cyber criminals before they had … [read full article]
Update (11/27/24 8:18 pm EST): T-Mobile Chief Security Officer, Jeff Simon, released an update regarding the alleged cyber attack. The Un-carrier confirmed that they “detected attempts to infiltrate” the system by bad actors. Fortunately, T-Mobile’s defenses worked as intended and protected “sensitive customer information, prevented any disruption of our services, and stopped the attack from advancing. Bad actors had no access to sensitive customer data (including calls, voicemails or texts).“ You can read the rest of … [read full article]
As part of its settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), T-Mobile will be investing millions of dollars in intensifying its cybersecurity operations. Not only that, the Un-carrier was ordered to pay $15.75 million in civil penalties to the US Treasury. This is the same amount that T-Mobile is spending on its internal cybersecurity investment. According to T-Mobile, it will be making the following improvements to its cybersecurity: Corporate Governance – T-Mobile’s Chief Information Security Officer will … [read full article]
In cases of a lawsuit, who really wins in the end? Is it the carrier, who disgruntled customers sued and are required to pay millions of dollars? Or is it the complainants, who win in their fight against the carriers but also win with some remuneration in the end? It’s actually neither– because in the end, it’s the lawyers that win for representing customers. As reported by PhoneArena, the … [read full article]
For the second time this year, T-Mobile experienced a data breach. The breach took place sometime between February and March 2023. Bleeping Computer reported that the Un-carrier sent out a notification letter to customers who were impacted by the attack last April 28th. In the letter, the wireless company detailed how they were affected by the hacker. “While we have a number of safeguards in place to alert us to … [read full article]
Oh no! It looks like T-Mobile just discovered a security breach. As released on the T-Mobile assures customers ‘no financial information stolen’ in recent breach” href=”https://www.tmonews.com/2023/01/t-mobile-assures-customers-no-financial-information-stolen-in-recent-breach/” title=”read full article”>[read full article]
The massive 2021 hack involving T-Mobile’s customers finally comes to an end. Today, the Un-carrier has agreed to settle the class-action lawsuit from the hack by paying $500 million. The proposed agreement filling entails T-Mobile will be paying $350 million as settlement fund for lawyers, fees, and to the people who filed claims. The remaining $150 million will be spent to improve its “data security and related technology” for 2022 and 2023. The 2021 hack exposed the … [read full article]
Over the weekend, T-Mobile was on the headlines after reports of a security breach orchestrated by a group of teenagers. T-Mobile has since confirmed the attack and said that the “systems accessed contained no customer or government information or other similarly sensitive information.” The incident was first reported by Krebs on Security, who revealed that the Lapsus$ hacking group managed to steal T-Mo’s source code in … [read full article]
Do you still remember the massive data breach that took place with T-Mobile last August? We still do and can recall that over 54 million of customers had their data compromised. There are new reports, however, that reveal that T-Mo attempted to buy the leaked data affected in the hack. As a result of the hack, T-Mobile announced a multi-year partnership with Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm. … [read full article]
Update (12/29/21 2:29 pm): T-Mobile has confirmed the attack to BleepingComputer and shared that they already sent out a message to affected customers: “We informed a very small number of customers that the SIM card assigned to a mobile number on their account may have been illegally reassigned or limited account information was viewed. Unauthorized SIM swaps are unfortunately a common industry-wide occurrence, however this issue was quickly corrected by our team, using our … [read full article]
