T-Mobile has confirmed that it had penetrated security for its US servers on August 20th, which has leaked some personal information to up to two million customers working in the company. The leaked information included customer names, postal codes of the invoice, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, account numbers and type. However, the company delivered a leak of sensitive information, as no financial information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, Passwords in security breach
According to a short article published by the company about the details of the incident, the cyber security team discovered the operation and closed unauthorized points for some information on Monday.
Although the company did not disclose how hackers managed to penetrate their servers, it did not disclose the exact number of customers affected by this breakthrough, as a spokesman for T-Mobile that less than 3 percent of its customers, 77 million were affected by the attack Equivalent to more than 2 million customers.
The spokesman also said anonymous hackers who are part of an international group were able to access the T-Mobile servers through the API, which did not include any financial data or other sensitive data, and said the company quickly discovered the attack and stopped it.
T-Mobile said the company had notified the law enforcement of the security breach and reached directly affected customers via text message, mail message or phone call to let them know as well.
The company was hacked in 2015 when 15 million customers were exposed to risk. Experian, which was responsible for processing the credit applications of the mobile operator, was exposed. The company published a statement posted on its website. We have a number of safeguards to protect personal information from unauthorized access, and we really regret the occurrence of this incident and regret any inconvenience this has caused to customers "
According to a short article published by the company about the details of the incident, the cyber security team discovered the operation and closed unauthorized points for some information on Monday.
Although the company did not disclose how hackers managed to penetrate their servers, it did not disclose the exact number of customers affected by this breakthrough, as a spokesman for T-Mobile that less than 3 percent of its customers, 77 million were affected by the attack Equivalent to more than 2 million customers.
The spokesman also said anonymous hackers who are part of an international group were able to access the T-Mobile servers through the API, which did not include any financial data or other sensitive data, and said the company quickly discovered the attack and stopped it.
T-Mobile said the company had notified the law enforcement of the security breach and reached directly affected customers via text message, mail message or phone call to let them know as well.
The company was hacked in 2015 when 15 million customers were exposed to risk. Experian, which was responsible for processing the credit applications of the mobile operator, was exposed. The company published a statement posted on its website. We have a number of safeguards to protect personal information from unauthorized access, and we really regret the occurrence of this incident and regret any inconvenience this has caused to customers "