Lord777
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According to the cybercriminal, he managed to steal several databases, containing a total of 106 GB of data.
T-Mobile, a major American telecom operator, is investigating a data leak after a hacker announced that T-Mobile servers were hacked and databases with personal information of about 100 million subscribers were stolen.
The first reports of the alleged leak appeared on one of the hacker forums on Saturday, August 14th. The hacker put up a T-Mobile database for sale at a price of 6 bitcoins (about $ 280,000). According to him, the database contains the dates of birth, driver's license numbers and social insurance numbers of 30 million people.
Although the announcement of the sale does not say anything about the source of the leak, the hacker himself told BleepingComputer that he was able to steal it as a result of hacking into the servers of the telecom operator. According to him, two weeks ago he managed to hack into the production, preparation and development servers of T-Mobile, including the server with the Oracle database containing the personal information of subscribers.
The stolen database allegedly contains data from about 100 million T-Mobile customers and may include their IMSI numbers, IMEI numbers, phone numbers, first and last names, PIN codes, social security numbers, driver's license numbers and dates of birth.
As evidence of the hacking of the carrier's servers, the hacker provided a screenshot of an SSH connection to a production server running Oracle software.
Cyble, a cybersecurity company, told BleepingComputer that, according to the cybercriminal, he was able to steal several databases containing a total of 106 GB of data, including a CRM database.
When asked whether the purpose of the hack was to demand a ransom from T-Mobile, the hacker replied that he had not contacted the company, but decided to immediately sell the stolen data on hacker forums, where he already had interested buyers.
As the hacker told the head of the information security company Hudson Rock Alon Gal (Alon Gal), the purpose of the hack was to damage the American infrastructure.
T-Mobile, a major American telecom operator, is investigating a data leak after a hacker announced that T-Mobile servers were hacked and databases with personal information of about 100 million subscribers were stolen.
The first reports of the alleged leak appeared on one of the hacker forums on Saturday, August 14th. The hacker put up a T-Mobile database for sale at a price of 6 bitcoins (about $ 280,000). According to him, the database contains the dates of birth, driver's license numbers and social insurance numbers of 30 million people.
Although the announcement of the sale does not say anything about the source of the leak, the hacker himself told BleepingComputer that he was able to steal it as a result of hacking into the servers of the telecom operator. According to him, two weeks ago he managed to hack into the production, preparation and development servers of T-Mobile, including the server with the Oracle database containing the personal information of subscribers.
The stolen database allegedly contains data from about 100 million T-Mobile customers and may include their IMSI numbers, IMEI numbers, phone numbers, first and last names, PIN codes, social security numbers, driver's license numbers and dates of birth.
As evidence of the hacking of the carrier's servers, the hacker provided a screenshot of an SSH connection to a production server running Oracle software.
Cyble, a cybersecurity company, told BleepingComputer that, according to the cybercriminal, he was able to steal several databases containing a total of 106 GB of data, including a CRM database.
When asked whether the purpose of the hack was to demand a ransom from T-Mobile, the hacker replied that he had not contacted the company, but decided to immediately sell the stolen data on hacker forums, where he already had interested buyers.
As the hacker told the head of the information security company Hudson Rock Alon Gal (Alon Gal), the purpose of the hack was to damage the American infrastructure.
