T-Mobile confirms unauthorized access to ‘some’ data

After reports of a data violation during the weekend, T-Mobile has confirmed that he is investigating a cybersecurity incident. In an update published on Monday, the company said that someone won unauthorized access to its computer systems, but that has not yet been able to determine if customer data was stolen.

“We trust that the entry point used to obtain access has been closed, and we continue our profound technical review of the situation in our systems to identify the nature of the data that was accepted illegally,” said the carrier.

When the motherboard broke the news of the data gap on Sunday, the information of about 30 million T-Mobile customers was on sale on the dark web for approximately $ 270,000 in Bitcoin. A hacker told the exit that they had obtained the social security numbers and IMEI related to more than 100 million people. As of the second quarter of 2021, T-Mobile had 104.7 million subscribers. The carrier said that he could not “confirm the informed number of affected records or the validity of the statements made by others” until he completes his investigation. Once you know more about the situation, T-Mobile promises to communicate proactively to customers.