Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. The telecommunication giant is in the process of notifying impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach, its websites SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com were hacked last month. In March hackers compromised two websites of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and now it disclosed a data breach. ” continues the data breach notice.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 230,000 individuals. Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 230,000 individuals.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Bad news for T-Mobile prepaid customer, the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a new data breach incident. The US branch of the telecommunications giant T -Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of its own. And no customer account data was involved."

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Hackers have stolen O2 customers’ data from a database run by Aerial Direct , one of the largest UK partners of the telecommunications services provider. “We recently became aware that some of our customers’ personal information stored on one of our databases has been accessed without permission. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

. “On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Bad news for the Australian telecommunications industry, the largest company in the country Telstra suffered a data breach. Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed a data breach through a third-party supplier. It seems that the security breach also impacted other companies.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2024

Last week, the RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen the information of over 2 million customers from the American telecommunications company Frontier Communications. The RansomHub group claimed to have stolen 5GB of data from the telecommunications giant. concludes the letter reads.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

Arkana Security, a new ransomware group, claims to have breached the telecommunications provider WideOpenWest (WOW!). The new ransomware group Arkana Security claims to have hacked US telecom provider WOW!, stealing customer data. has not yet confirmed the alleged data breach. WideOpenWest (WOW!)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday T-Mobile confirmed a data breach but announced that it was still investigating the extent of the security breach. The company announced to have started a “deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2021

SITA is a multinational information technology company providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

T-Mobile disclosed the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers since February. T-Mobile suffered the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers starting in late February 2023.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bad news for T-Mobile, the company disclosed a new data breach that resulted in the theft of data belonging to 37 customer accounts. T-Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

New problems for the wireless carrier T-Mobile that disclosed a data breach that exposed some of the customers’ personal information. A data breach notification published by the telecommunications giant on its website revealed that the security breach impacted both employees and customers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

AT&T is warning some of its customers that some of their information was exposed after the hack of a third-party vendor’s system. AT&T is notifying millions of customers that some of their information was exposed after a third-party vendor was hacked. ”​ Exposed data don’t include financial information (i.e.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The agency sent a data breach notification to its employees last week informing them of a security breach that took place last year between May and July.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2021

Mint Mobile discloses a data breach, an unauthorized attacker gained access to subscribers’ account information and ported phone numbers. Mint Mobile is an American telecommunications company which sells mobile phone services and operates as an MVNO on T-Mobile’s cellular network in the United States.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

T-Mobile is investigating a possible data breach after a threat actor published a post on a forum claiming to be selling the personal data of its customers. The seller is asking for 6 bitcoin (around $270,000) for 30 million social security numbers and driver licenses, while they are privately selling the remaining data.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? In October, FICO teamed up with the U.S. ARE YOU EXPERIANSED?

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2019

US telecommunications company Sprint revealed that hackers compromised an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com “add a line” website. “On June 22, Sprint was informed of unauthorized access to your Sprint account using your account credentials via the Samsung.com “add a line” website.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

The database contains personally-identifiable and subscription information for 44,000,000 Pakistanis, including customer full names, home addresses (city, region, street name), National identification (CNIC) numbers, mobile phone numbers, landline numbers, and dates of subscription. – Database apparently got hacked in 2017.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The oil giant employs has over $200 billion in annual revenue, and the threat actors are offering the stolen data at an initial price of $5 million. Bleeping Computer reached the company who confirmed a data breach on third-party contractors, but pointed out that the incident had no impact on Aramco’s operations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

CISA adds Microsoft Windows, Zyxel device flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2025 ficed 2 actively exploited bugs Hacking Attackers exploit a new zero-day to hijack Fortinet firewalls Security OpenSSL patched high-severity flaw CVE-2024-12797 Progress Software fixed multiple high-severity (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. Early this week, the company confirmed that the breach impacted nearly 2.1 million individuals. ” reads the announcement published by the AFP. .” said Gough.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Each of these regulations addresses different aspects of cybersecurity and data protection, making it essential for businesses and organizations to stay informed and proactive. HIPAA also requires organizations to conduct regular risk assessments and report data breaches.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile , MailChimp and OpenAI in 2023). And what you should do with it?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

. “Also, we can confirm that all our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time there is no evidence any player personal information was accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident.” At this time, there is no evidence of a data breach during the incident and the services are up and running normally.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

Early this month, the ransomware gang hit the websites under Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) causing the unavailability of COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens. The gang also targeted the South American telecommunication providers Claro and Embratel. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Belgian intelligence service VSSE accused Alibaba of ‘possible espionage’ at European hub in Liege A WhatsApp zero-day exploit can cost several million dollars CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity and Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog NATO is investigating a new cyber attack claimed by the SiegedSec group Global CRM Provider Exposed (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Global Risks Report , says, “The largest (data breach) was in India, where the government ID database, Aadhaar, reportedly suffered multiple breaches that potentially compromised the records of all 1.1 billion registered citizens.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Now ESET researchers are blaming the Russia-linked APT group for the attacks that took place in March, the hackers also disclosed a data breach. continues the data breach notice. The recently reported breach of #SFO airport websites is in line with the TTPs of an APT group known as Dragonfly/Energetic Bear.

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