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T-Mobile investigates potential 100m user data breach
Monday, August 16, 2021
T-Mobile has launched an investigation into a claim on an online forum which suggests that the personal data from over 100 million users have been breached.
Ilia Kolochenko, Founder of ImmuniWeb and a member of Europol Data Protection Experts Network, said that the price for the records is “very cheap”, at just 1 cent per victim. He said the data could be exploited to conduct targeted mobile attacks, social engineering, sophisticated phishing campaigns, or financial fraud.
“From a legal viewpoint, if the information about the breach is confirmed, T-Mobile may face an avalanche of individual and class action lawsuits from the victims, as well as protracted investigations and serious monetary penalties from the states where the victims are based,” he said, adding that it would be premature to make a conclusion before T-Mobile makes an official statement on the quantity and nature of the stolen data.
In January this year, T-Mobile suffered a data breach affecting information government agencies considered to be highly sensitive. It affected around 200,000 customers and contained information such as customer phone numbers and the number of lines subscribed to on their account. Read Full Article
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