The massive hack is the second in less than two years at the telecom company.
The good news: T-Mobile has claimed that sensitive financial customer info like credit card and social security numbers were not part of the hack. Instead, the bad actors were only able to collect account data like names, billing addresses, emails, phone numbers, birth dates, and phone line specifics, according to the company. Still though, that’s a lot of data for cybercriminals to get a hold of, and T-Mobile customers should be aware that their personal information could be out there.
Hackers were reportedly able to access the data through a single Application Programming Interface , a software that allows multiple computer programs to communicate with one another. The bad actors broke into T-Mobile’s API without authorization.provider said it first detected the hack on January 5, and shut down the malicious activity less than a day later, with the help of external cybersecurity support. However, by that point, the breach had been going on for over a month.
“The malicious activity appears to be fully contained at this time,” the company wrote in the Thursday filing, but added that it was continuing to investigate what happened.All you need to do is sign up with your email and boom: credit for your preorder on a new Samsung device.This most recent hack is far from the only one T-Mobile and its customers have had to deal with in recent years.
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