AFP, published on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 9:55 p.m.
Telephone operator T-Mobile on Wednesday admitted the theft of private data from more than 40 million people, including 7.8 million subscribers, in a cyber attack targeting it, estimating for the time being that their data financial resources had not been stolen.
“Our preliminary analysis is that the personal information of approximately 7.8 million paying subscribers to our services is included in the stolen files, as well as just over 40 million files of former or potential customers,” said the group said in a statement Wednesday.
On the stock market, the title T-Mobile lost 0.44% to 140.05 dollars around 14:50 GMT.
Some of the data hackers gained access to include the first and last names of customers or potential customers, their date of birth, social security number, and information about their driver’s license or ID, says T-Mobile. .
On the other hand, “no telephone number, account number, PIN code, password or financial information has been compromised in these files of customers or potential customers”, specifies the operator who confirmed the intrusion of hackers into its computer systems Monday.
In addition, among the exposed data of about 850,000 subscribers to prepaid offers were the PIN codes, which the group announced to have already reset.
According to screenshots published by the computer security site Bleeping Computer in recent days, the personal information of at least 30 million people had been offered for sale on forums for the equivalent of 280,000 bitcoin (i.e. approximately $ 13 billion).
Data theft and ransomware attacks have escalated in recent months, targeting various companies and organizations, including a US pipeline operator, the Irish health services IT system and a major Indian airline.
Facebook, Yahoo and Marriott have suffered theft of personal information concerning more than 100 million of their users or customers in recent years.
T-Mobile also suggested Wednesday to its customers to change their PIN code and announced to offer them a two-year subscription to protect their private data against theft.
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