T-Mobile confirmed to Android Police that it has closed a data breach operation that may have collected a small group of customer phone numbers, number of lines per account and call diagnostic metrics. Customers who may have been affected were alerted via text message yesterday and informed that the event took place in November.
The company informs us that the hackers did not have access to any name associated with the account, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, passwords, PINs or physical or e-mail addresses.
While many of the worrying things have been excluded here, these call diagnostic metrics – customer-proprietary network information, as defined by the FCC – can and can include call location data, such as tower IDs and even granular information from your customer. device.
Overall, however, it seems that the impact scale in terms of severity and range is relatively minimal this time – there are many two-bit attacks like this that we cannot report – but T -The cell phone has become a frequent victim as it is affected for at least one major attack each year. In fact, there was another coup in March.
That said, getting around all possible people who have been affected can be a time-consuming task: a subscriber said yesterday that he was alerted by T-Mobile about a possible compromise that happened 9 months ago.
