T-Mobile confirms data breach but isn’t sure what was accessed

2021 It did not start well for T-Mobile, and it seems that his luck is not turning for better yet. In addition to the severe winter freezing earlier this year and a greater scrutiny about its acquisition of Sprint, it does not face one, but two incidents of severe piracy. T-Mobile has just confirmed that in fact he has been a victim of a data violation, but he is still investigating what data accepted illegally and if the data really included the client’s information.

After the news establishes on Sunday that the network operator may have been hacked, T-Mobile applies an official statement that confirms speculation. Said briefly, the “some” data of T-Mobile can be accessed, but now the entry point for that unauthorized entry has been closed. The most worrying detail about the announcement, however, is that the carrier continues to try to identify the nature of the data that were stolen.

If the previous reports must be believed, the hackers left with data from 100 million customers T-Mobile. In fact, they were trying to sell 30 million social security numbers and IMEI related to that data heist. Taking into account the T-Mobile, it is reportedly, it has almost 105 million customers, that is a frightening thought.

This is not the first T-Mobile data gap this year, either. At the beginning of 2021, he also confirmed that computer pirates agreed to servers carrying out the information of the customer’s patented network or CPNI. T-Mobile explained that the incident affected only 0.2% of its customers and did not include critical data such as credit card numbers. Or at least that’s what the T-Mobile revealed publicly.

The operator says that it could take some time for the research to ced something fruitful and will retain confirming any report on the stolen data. T-Mobile promises to help protect affected customers, but that protection will only be effective if done before hackers can exploit the data they have stolen.