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T-Mobile Alerted ‘A Few Hundred Customers’ Targeted By Hackers

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports:

T-Mobile has alerted hundreds of customers who were targeted by cybercriminals trying to hijack their SIM cards.

The company contacted the targeted customers over the last two weeks, after Motherboard revealed that a bug on a T-Mobile website allowed hackers to access customers’ personal data such as email address, account number, and their phone’s IMSI, a standardized unique number that identifies subscribers.

Read more on Motherboard.


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