As part of its investigation into the violation of ongoing data, T-Mobile has confirmed the enormity of the stolen information. About 47.8 million current and old customers have been affected by Cyberattack on its systems, the carrier confirmed Wednesday. Of these, approximately 7.8 million are current T-Mobile accounts and other prerequisites or potential users who had requested credit, the company added in a press release.
Note, the data contain personal information, including the names of presidents and names of birth, date of birth, SSN and driver license / identity information for a “subset of customers” . So far, T-Mobile said it has no indication that stolen files contain phone numbers, account numbers, passwords, or financial information.
In addition, the company said that approximately 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customers also had their names, telephone numbers and exposed account pins. The users concerned do not include the T-Mobile metro, former Sprint Prepaid, or Boost Boost and T-Mobile said it reset the pins on these accounts. In addition, he claimed that “some additional information” inactive prepaid accounts has been accessed through prepaid billing files.
The conclusions of the carrier’s preliminary analysis are only a few days after its notification of a violation of the data. Initially, it has been reported that a member of an underground forum claimed to have got data from more than 100 million T-Mobile clients. The culprit was going to appear information of about 30 million T-Mobile customers for approximately $ 270,000 in Bitcoin.
As part of its compensation and mitigation efforts, T-Mobile offers clients involved two years of McAfee ID Theft Protection Service; Recommend all postpaid users change PINs; and set up an online resource page. T-Mobile stated that it began coordination with the application of the Act Tuesday as its investigation into the data breach – the third of this type of attack that it has undergone over the last two years – continues.
