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T-Mobile Data Breach

Schneier on Security

It’s a big one : As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile’s servers and is selling a portion of it on an underground forum for 6 bitcoin, about $280,000.

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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

Krebs on Security

On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile. On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile.

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South African telecom provider Cell C disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack

Security Affairs

Cell C, one of the biggest telecom providers in South Africa confirms a data breach following a 2024 cyberattack. Cell C is the fourth-largest mobile network operator in South Africa, , after Vodacom, MTN, and Telkom. Cell C has confirmed a data breach following a RansomHouse cyberattack that occurred last year.

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African multinational telco giant MTN Group disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

African multinational telecommunications company MTN Group disclosed a data breach that exposed subscribers’ personal information. Founded in 1994, it has grown to become Africa’s largest mobile network operator, serving over 290 million subscribers across 18 countries in Africa and the Middle East.

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T-Mobile is one of the victims of the massive Chinese breach of telecom firms

Security Affairs

T-Mobile confirmed being a victim of recent hacking campaigns linked to China-based threat actors targeting telecom companies. T-Mobile confirms it was hacked as part of a long-running cyber espionage campaign targeting Telco companies. The bad news is that this isn’t the first incident suffered by T-Mobile.

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Data breaches in 2024: Could it get any worse?

Malwarebytes

Huge increase in numbers As we reported in July , the number of data breach victims went up 1,170% in Q2 2024, compared to Q2 2023 (from 81,958,874 victims to 1,041,312,601). The huge increase is no big surprise if you look at the size of some of these breaches. Dell notifies customers about data breach (49 million customers) 4.

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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

Krebs on Security

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In October, mobile provider Optus disclosed that hackers abused a poorly secured API to steal data on 10 million customers in Australia.

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