T-Mobile revealed in financial documents on Thursday that hackers accessed a mountain of personal data for 37 million customers.
The telecom giant said “villains” began stealing data containing “information such as names, billing addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, T-Mobile account numbers, account lines and plans.” rice field. Features”, from November 25th.
of SEC filingT-Mobile said it detected the breach more than a month later, on January 5, and fixed the issue exploited by the hackers within a day.
T-Mobile said the hackers didn’t compromise the company’s systems, but exploited an application programming interface (API).
“While our investigation is still ongoing, at this time the malicious activity appears to be fully contained and we are currently aware that a malicious individual has infiltrated or compromised our systems and networks. There is no evidence that,” the company wrote.
This is the eighth time T-Mobile has been hacked since 2018.The most recent incident was in 2022, when a group of hackers known as Lapsus$ Gained access to internal company toolsThis allows hackers to hijack a victim’s phone number and use it to perform a so-called SIM swap, a type of hack that attempts to reset and access sensitive accounts such as emails and cryptocurrency wallets. they were given the opportunity to
T-Mobile did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
