It has been reported that T-Mobile, which provides mobile communication services in Europe and North America and has 101 million subscribers, has leaked personal information data of 100 million users.
According to the report, an article suddenly appeared on an Internet forum saying that T-Mobile users’ personal information was being sold, and that T-Mobile is conducting its own investigation. As a result of direct contact with the author of this post, it is said that the person obtained personal information of more than 100 million T-Mobile users and that the source was the T-Mobile server.
User personal information obtained from T-Mobile server includes social security number, phone number, name, address, IMEI, and driver’s license information. In fact, after obtaining this sample of sales data, they confirmed that the personal information they were selling was accurate.
In addition, the seller of personal information of T-Mobile users explained that the data sold on the Internet was the data of all T-Mobile customers in the United States, and said that it had infringed several T-Mobile servers to collect sales data. This person is selling 30 million documents of social security number and driver’s license set for 6BTC on an internet forum. Not only that, but the rest of the personal information is also sold.
The seller of personal information of T-Mobile users said that they were already aware of the fact that T-Mobile was hacked because they were unable to access the backdoor server. He said he was already aware of this hack.
It is said that the personal information stolen from the T-Mobile server has already been downloaded locally and backed up in multiple locations. Meanwhile, T-Mobile said it is aware of the incident and is investigating the effect, saying that it is currently investigating a large-scale data breach by saying that there is no other information to share. Related information can be found here.