In an fascinating flip of occasions, telecom large T-Cellular is allegedly trying into a large knowledge breach that’s stated to contain private knowledge from greater than a 100 million folks.
As per latest reviews, T-Cellular is probing right into a discussion board claiming to be “promoting a mountain of private knowledge,” in alternate for Bitcoin. “We’re conscious of claims made in an underground discussion board and have been actively investigating their validity, we would not have any further data to share right now,” a T-Cellular spokesperson advised Vice’s Motherboard.
アメリカの携帯キャリア、T-MOBILEのサーバーに侵入し、1億人分の個人情報を手に入れたから、3,000万円をよこせと連絡が入ったそうだ。まだ本当に情報が流出したのか調べている最中なのに、大手メディアはすでに報道しちゃっている。これで株価暴落だね。https://t.co/7kVm3LcCus
— Samson (@yeesamson) August 15, 2021
The “vendor” reportedly revealed that the stated knowledge included social safety numbers, telephone numbers, names, bodily addresses, distinctive IMEI numbers, and driver’s licenses data. The vendor talked about, “T-Cellular USA. Full buyer information,” when discussing the identical with media.
So far as the demand is worried, the vendor requested for six BTC, in alternate for a portion of knowledge, containing 30 million social safety numbers and driver licenses. This quantities to round $287,000, on the time of writing. Nevertheless, vendor specified that the rest (of the info) can be bought privately. Referring to T-Cellular’s swift response to the breach, the vendor responded,
“I feel they already discovered as a result of we misplaced entry to the backdoored servers.”
Sadly, this wasn’t the primary time that T-Cellular was a goal of a cyber-security scandal. In keeping with findings, T- cell was sued by a sufferer who misplaced $450,000 in Bitcoin in a SIM-swap assault. The lawsuit was filed in opposition to T-Cellular on February 8, within the Southern District of New York, by plaintiff Calvin Cheng.
