Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account On Monday, T-Mobile confirmed a cybersecurity incident but offered no further details at the time. The investigation into the breach began after Vice reported on Sunday that hackers were offering T-Mobile customer data for sale on the dark web. T-Mobile said it will offer two years of free credit monitoring to affected customers. Account PINs belonging to the 850,000 prepaid customers were compromised, however, and T-Mobile said it has unilaterally reset those PINs as a security precaution.Ĭustomers of other T-Mobile prepaid brands including Metro, Boost and former Sprint prepaid customers have not had their PINs or names exposed, T-Mobile added.
The company is recommending that all T-Mobile postpaid customers preemptively change the PINs protecting their accounts, though it said it has no evidence those PINs have been compromised.
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While no customer financial information appears to have been exposed, the stolen personal information includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers for “a subset of current and former postpay customers and prospective T-Mobile customers.” T-Mobile confirms it was hit by data breach retail store in Torrance, California, U.S., on Monday, Nov. Galaxy 3 smartphone for a customer at a T-Mobile US Inc. Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast CYBER, here.An employee sets up a new Samsung Electronics Co. We do not have any additional information to share at this time." T-Mobile repeatedly declined to answer follow-up questions about the scale of the breach. T-Mobile said in a statement to Motherboard that "We are aware of claims made in an underground forum and have been actively investigating their validity. "It's backed up in multiple places," they said. They said that although it appears T-Mobile has since kicked them out of the hacked servers, the seller had already downloaded the data locally. "I think they already found out because we lost access to the backdoored servers," the seller said, referring to T-Mobile's potential response to the breach. The seller said they are privately selling the rest of the data at the moment.
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Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, or email the underground forum the seller is asking for 6 bitcoin, around $270,000, for a subset of the data containing 30 million social security numbers and driver licenses. The seller said they compromised multiple servers related to T-Mobile.ĭo you work at T-Mobile and know anything else about this breach? We'd love to hear from you.
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Full customer info," the seller told Motherboard in an online chat. Motherboard has seen samples of the data, and confirmed they contained accurate information on T-Mobile customers. The data includes social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver licenses information, the seller said.
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