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John Binns is sure that in Turkey, the security services will not be able to get to him.
US citizen John Erin Binns, who lives in Turkey, is accused of hacking T-Mobile, which resulted in the data of 50 million people being stolen. The incident became known in 2021. Binns has previously admitted to hacking himself, describing T-Mobile's security measures as "terrible". In a recent interview, he expressed confidence that he will not be extradited from Turkey.
T-Mobile is one of the largest telecom operators in the United States and Europe. Court documents indicate that Binns, along with co-conspirators, successfully penetrated secure computer networks using the aliases Irdev, IntelSecrets, V0rtex and SubVirt. The hack was one of the largest in the history of the U.S. telecommunications industry, prompting a series of class-action lawsuits and obliging T-Mobile to pay customers $ 350 million in compensation. Since 2018, the company has already reported nine security incidents.
Binns began its operations back in December 2020, scanning T-Mobile's IP addresses for vulnerabilities. After breaking into the network, he used various techniques to gain access to other parts of the system. In July 2021, he installed malware to transfer files and then move around the network.
Binns gained access to the data of T-Mobile customers, including current, former and potential ones, and put the files up for sale. The documents also mention other participants in the scheme, but without charges: a user with the nickname und0xxed, who helped find buyers; an unknown accomplice from Germany, who provided his servers; and Omnipotent, a facilitator responsible for conducting transactions. Presumably, this pseudonym hides Diogo Santos Coelho, the administrator of the hacker forum RaidForums, who was arrested in the UK.
Binns claims that the T-Mobile data was sold, but he kept a copy of the files and tried to get additional benefits from them. The scheme used a foreign cryptocurrency exchange, and the criminal promised one of the accomplices cryptocurrency in exchange for credit cards issued in someone else's names.
Binns is officially charged with hacking, money laundering, theft of confidential information and fraud. T-Mobile and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington have not yet commented on the situation.
US citizen John Erin Binns, who lives in Turkey, is accused of hacking T-Mobile, which resulted in the data of 50 million people being stolen. The incident became known in 2021. Binns has previously admitted to hacking himself, describing T-Mobile's security measures as "terrible". In a recent interview, he expressed confidence that he will not be extradited from Turkey.
T-Mobile is one of the largest telecom operators in the United States and Europe. Court documents indicate that Binns, along with co-conspirators, successfully penetrated secure computer networks using the aliases Irdev, IntelSecrets, V0rtex and SubVirt. The hack was one of the largest in the history of the U.S. telecommunications industry, prompting a series of class-action lawsuits and obliging T-Mobile to pay customers $ 350 million in compensation. Since 2018, the company has already reported nine security incidents.
Binns began its operations back in December 2020, scanning T-Mobile's IP addresses for vulnerabilities. After breaking into the network, he used various techniques to gain access to other parts of the system. In July 2021, he installed malware to transfer files and then move around the network.
Binns gained access to the data of T-Mobile customers, including current, former and potential ones, and put the files up for sale. The documents also mention other participants in the scheme, but without charges: a user with the nickname und0xxed, who helped find buyers; an unknown accomplice from Germany, who provided his servers; and Omnipotent, a facilitator responsible for conducting transactions. Presumably, this pseudonym hides Diogo Santos Coelho, the administrator of the hacker forum RaidForums, who was arrested in the UK.
Binns claims that the T-Mobile data was sold, but he kept a copy of the files and tried to get additional benefits from them. The scheme used a foreign cryptocurrency exchange, and the criminal promised one of the accomplices cryptocurrency in exchange for credit cards issued in someone else's names.
Binns is officially charged with hacking, money laundering, theft of confidential information and fraud. T-Mobile and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington have not yet commented on the situation.
