Crime T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach - 100 Million Users

[The Helper]

A day after this article was published, T-Mobile confirmed in an announcement that it suffered a data breach. The original story is below.

T-Mobile says it is investigating a forum post claiming to be selling a mountain of personal data. The forum post itself doesn't mention T-Mobile, but the seller told Motherboard they have obtained data related to over 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile servers.

The data includes social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver licenses information, the seller said. Motherboard has seen samples of the data, and confirmed they contained accurate information on T-Mobile customers.

"T-Mobile USA. Full customer info," the seller told Motherboard in an online chat. The seller said they compromised multiple servers related to T-Mobile.

T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach

Hackers selling the data are claiming it affects 100 million users.

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