T-Mobile, the actual third largest cell carrier in all of the United States has just recently completed its $26 billion merger along with Sprint. However, 2020 ended with T-Mobile announcing its very second data breach of the entire year.
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According to T-Mobile's official website, the company had just recently discovered that certain hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to a number of customers' account information. This includes the data that T-Mobile makes as well as collects on its customers in order for the company to provide cell service.
The story was then reported by TechCrunch noting what T-Mobile said. According to the notice given, it was stated that the company's own cybersecurity team has just recently discovered as well as shut down this malicious and unauthorized access of a number of information that is related to the customers' T-Mobile account.
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It was then stated that the company already started the investigation into T-Mobile hacked 2021 along with the assistance from the United States' known leading cybersecurity forensics experts. This is for the company to be able to determine just what had happened to the data that was taken from the T-Mobile users. It was also stated that the company immediately reported this particular matter towards the federal law enforcement and are currently in the actual process of notifying the impacted customers.
The data is known as the customer proprietary network information or CPNI and this data can include the customers' call records. The call records could be when a certain call was made, how long did the call last, both the callers' phone number as well as the destination phone numbers for every single call, and also other information that might actually be found on the customer's own bill.
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The company, however, stated that hackers did not actually gain access to the customer names, home, or even their email addresses, account passwords (or PINS), and financial data. The notice did not even say that when T-Mobile had detected the breach, only that the company was now notifying the affected customers.
A certain spokesperson for T-Mobile reportedly told BleepingComputer that the particular breach only affected about 0.2% of the total T-Mobile customers. This means that only about 200,000 customers were compromised in this particular hack. This is reportedly the latest security incident to actually hit the massive cell giant in a number of years.
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Back in 2018, T-Mobile stated that the company had as much as two million customers that might have had their own personal information stolen. Just a year later, the company then confirmed that hackers were able to get the records of yet another million of the company's prepaid customers.
Just about two months into last year, T-Mobile had publicly admitted in an article by ZDNet that the company had suffered yet another breach on its own email systems that saw certain hackers access a number of T-Mobile employee email accounts. It had also reportedly exposed some of T-Mobile's customer data as well.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
