T-Mobile is looking for potential 100 million customer data hacking

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The hackers allegedly planned to sell a set of stolen information for 6 bitcoins ($286,000).

US telecommunications giant T-Mobile is investigating a suspected huge data breach that will affect nearly 100 million users.

According to Vice’s motherboard, T-Mobile is dealing with the alleged data breach claimed by the author of the post on an underground forum. The report on August 15 stated that hackers claimed to have data on approximately 100 million customers obtained from T-Mobile servers.

The seller is asking for 6 BTC-approximately $287,000 at current cost, in exchange for some information.

The main board has seen information samples containing social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver license information.

The seller told the outlet that they are now selling most of the information privately, but can provide a set of information containing 30 million social security numbers and driving licenses to obtain BTC ransom.

Speaking of T-Mobile’s alert and potential response to the violation, the hacker said: “I think they have found out because we can’t access the backdoor server.”

A T-Mobile spokesperson stated that the company “understands the statement created in the underground forum” and “is actively studying its effectiveness”, adding: “We currently do not have any other information to share.”

This is not the first time T-Mobile has been involved in a cyber security scandal. In February, the mobile operator was sued by a victim who lost $450,000 in Bitcoin in an extremely serious SIM swap attack.

Once the victim’s mobile phone number is stolen, a SIM swap attack will occur. This can be used to hijack the victim’s online funds and social media accounts by intercepting machine-driven messages or phone calls used for two-factor authentication security measures.

In this case, the victim Calvin Cheng accused T-Mobile of failing to implement adequate security policies to prevent unauthorized access to its customers’ accounts.

T-Mobile was also sued by the chief operating officer of an encryption company in July 2020 for a series of SIM exchanges that resulted in a loss of $8.7 million in digital asset prices.

In April of this year, hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger filed a class-action lawsuit against one of the most important data breaches, which stole the private data of 270,000 customers between April and June 2020.