T-Mobile Warns Customers of Massive Data Breach

T-mobile confirmed yesterday that it had been hit by a data breach. The company acknowledged the breach but declined to say whether any personal information from customers was accessed or how widespread the damage was. The company made the announcement after hackers told ‘Vice’ that they were selling ‘full customer info’ of over 100 million people they obtained from T-mobile servers,  on Sunday the company said it was ‘aware of the claims made in an underground forum’ and are ‘actively investigating their validity’.

Yesterday the company said it had closed a vulnerability used by hackers to gain entry to their system and is working with the ‘highest degree of urgency’ to investigate. In a statement the company said “we have been working around the clock to investigate claims being made that T-mobile data may have been illegally accessed, we have determined that unauthorized access to some T-mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved.” T-mobile will be updating customers as further details are uncovered.