T-Mobile investigates allegations of customer data breaches

Aug. 15 (Reuters) – T-Mobile (TMUS.O) is investigating a complaint about an online forum article that the personal data of more than 100 million users has been breached, the company said.

“We are aware of the claims made in an underground forum and are actively investigating their validity. We have no further information to share at this time,” a T-Mobile spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.

US-based digital media Vice first reported the allegations of a data breach. Reuters was unable to verify the veracity of the forum post.

According to Vice’s Motherboard report, the forum post did not mention T-Mobile, but the hacker told Vice that he had obtained data from over 100 million people and that the data was coming from T- servers. Mobile.

The data included information such as social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses and driver’s license information, the report added.

In the online forum, the hacker requests 6 bitcoins for a subset of data containing 30 million social security and driver’s license numbers, while the rest of the data is sold privately, according to the Vice report.

Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Daniel Wallis

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