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T-Mobile Tried To Pay Hackers To Buy Leaked Customer Data Back

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Dissent

Abhishek Mishra reports on one of the revelations in court filings related to the arrest of the owner of RaidForums and the takedown of the forum:

T-Mobile, one of the largest phone carriers in the U.S., tried to pay the hackers to get back its customer data leaked in a previous breach. The move backfired and they lost $200,000 in the process. Hackers continued to sell the data even after receiving the ransom from a third party allegedly representing T-Mobile.

Department of Justice arrested Diogo Santos Coelho who seems to be the administrator of the website that sells stolen data.

Read more at Fossbytes.

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