T-Mobile agrees to pay customers $350 million in settlement over data breach

T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle class action claims related to a 2021 cyberattack which impacted around 80 million US residents. Under the proposed settlement, T-Mobile would also commit to an aggregate incremental spend of $150 million for data security and related technology i...

Lapsus$ Hackers Stole T-Mobile’s Source Code and Systems Data

By Deeba Ahmed T-Mobile has acknowledged the breach which occurred before police arrested some of the Lapsus$ members last month. The… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lapsus$ Hackers Stole T-Mobiles Source Code and Systems Data...

Lapsus$ Hackers Target T-Mobile

T-Mobile confirmed that the extortion group Lapsus$ gains access to their system “several weeks ago”. The telecom giant responded to a report by a journalist Brian Krebs, who accessed the internal chats from the private Telegram channel of the core Lapsus$ gang members. The company added that it...

T-Mobile Admits Lapsus$ Hackers Gained Access to its Internal Tools and Source Code

Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday confirmed that it was the victim of a security breach in March after the LAPSUS$ mercenary gang managed to gain access to its networks. The acknowledgment came after investigative journalist Brian Krebs shared internal chats belonging to the core members of the...

Leaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of...

North Korea's Lazarus Group Was Behind $540 Million Ronin Theft

Plus: Spyware maker NSO Group deemed “valueless,” T-Mobile fails to buy its stolen data, and malware spreads on Telegram...

RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the worlds largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charge...

Apple’s Private Relay Is Being Blocked

Some European cell phone carriers, and now T-Mobile, are blocking Apples Private Relay anonymous browsing feature. This could be an interesting battle to watch. Slashdot thread...

T-Mobile’s latest data breach exposed users to SIM swapping attacks

By Waqas T-Mobile is the only telecom giant to suffer at least three known data breaches in 2021. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: T-Mobiles latest data breach exposed users to SIM swapping attacks...

Robocalls More Than Doubled in 2021, Cost Victims $30B

No surprise to anyone with a phone: Robocalls are rampant. In fact, the number of scam calls more than doubled over the past year, successfully bilking wireless phone customers out of $29.8 billion in 2021 alone. Wireless carrier T-Mobile just released its Scam and Robocall year-end report, and t...

How the FBI Gets Location Information

Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked I think 2019 139-page presentation...

Telecom giant behind routing SMS discloses 5-year-long data breach

By Deeba Ahmed The target of the data breach Syniverse works with carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, Twilio, and AT&T in routing SMS text messages. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Telecom giant behind routing SMS discloses 5-year-long data breach...

T-Mobile hacker used brute force attack to steal customers’ data

By Saad Rajpoot A 21-year-old US citizen named John Binns has claimed responsibility for the T-Mobile data breach and labeled the carrier’s “security is awful.” This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: T-Mobile hacker used brute force attack to steal customers data...

T-Mobile’s Security Is ‘Awful,’ Says Purported Thief

On Thursday, a 21-year-old US citizen claiming to be the attacker who stole data on more than 50 million T-Mobile customers called the telecom’s security “awful.” On Friday, a “humbled” T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert wiped the egg from his face and apologized for the debacle, the repercussions of whic...

California Man Stole 620,000 iCloud Photos in Search of Nudes

Plus: The T-Mobile hacker, another big bad Microsoft bug, and more of the week’s top security news...

Details of the Recent T-Mobile Breach

Seems that 47 million customers were affected. Surprising no one, T-Mobile had awful security. Ive lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked...

A week in security (August 16 – August 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Podcast: Katie Moussouris hacked Clubhouse. Her emails went unanswered for weeks. How to troubleshoot hardware problems that look like malware problems. Analysts “strongly believe” the Russian state colludes with ransomware gangs. macOS 11’s hidden security...

Empowering T-Mobile Consumers

Here's how the T-Mobile breach may affect you, and what you can do to protect your data...

This Week in Security News - August 20, 2021

This Week in Security News: Tokyo Olympics Leveraged in Cybercrime Attack and T-Mobile Confirms Hack...

What’s Next for T-Mobile and Its Customers? – Podcast

What’s the opposite of a resilient operation? It’s when your wireless carrier gets breached for the sixth time in a few years, you try to change your PIN online, and the site tells you “No can do.” As of Wednesday, T-Mobile had confirmed its sixth breach over the last three years. The purported...