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T-Mobile hack sees 40,000,000 people’s details stolen in data breach

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The third-largest mobile carrier in the US has suffered a massive data breach (Picture: Getty Images)

T-Mobile has confirmed a major data breach led to the theft of personal information from 40 million current and former customers.

The US’ third-largest mobile carrier said the stolen information includes people’s names, driver’s licence information and social security numbers, but there was ‘no indication’ any financial details were leaked.

The breach was only discovered after attempts by hackers to sell the database online were reported in the press.

It appears to affect US customers. The T-Mobile UK brand was rebranded as EE in 2012 and is now owned by BT, who have not announced any data leaks.

A subset of the data containing 30 million social security numbers and driver’s licenses was being sold for 6 bitcoin (£200,000) on a hacking forum on Sunday, Vice News’ Motherboard reported.

The seller was said to have claimed they were selling the rest of the data privately.

‘Preliminary analysis’ showed around 7.8 million current T-Mobile customer accounts’ information was contained in the stolen files, the company said.

It also included 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with the company.

T-mobile data breach

The hack has affected tens of millions of current and former customers (Picture: Getty Images)

In a statement, T-Mobile said ‘no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information were compromised in any of these files of customers or prospective customers’.

‘As a result of this finding, we are taking immediate steps to help protect all of the individuals who may be at risk from this cyberattack.’

However, some 850,000 active customers’ names, phone numbers and account PINs were ‘exposed’, it added.

The company has taken a number of steps to address the breach, including resetting PINs on affected accounts and offering 2 years of free third-party identity protection services.

The statement concluded: ‘We take our customers’ protection very seriously and we will continue to work around the clock on this forensic investigation to ensure we are taking care of our customers in…

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McAfee sees surge in mobile malware targeting COVID-19 vaccines | 2021-07-01

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McAfee sees surge in mobile malware targeting COVID-19 vaccines | 2021-07-01 | Security Magazine




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A Year of Lockdown Sees a Surge in Mobile Malware Targeting Banking, Billing and COVID-19 Vaccines

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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, McAfee’s Advanced Threats Research team released its Mobile Threat Report 2021, which found hackers are using fake apps, Trojans and fraudulent messages to target consumers. Last year, McAfee revealed that hidden apps were the most active mobile threat facing consumers. But following a year of lockdowns and a surge in time spent online and on devices, fraudsters are capitalising on this with more approaches. With most of the world still anxious about COVID-19 and demand for vaccines high, McAfee’s research sheds light on how hackers are targeting these fears with bogus apps, text messages, and social media invitations.

“The pandemic changed the way consumers live, meaning hackers have adapted to switch up the various methods they use to target consumers. With more people connected online than ever before, we want to make sure we are doing everything possible to help refocus consumer’s digital mindsets to protect what matters to them and their friends and family – their personal data,” Judith Bitterli, Senior Vice President, Consumer Business Group at McAfee. “Mobile threats remain prevalent in our world and as fraudsters use more advanced methods, this will only continue. We aim to support consumers in safeguarding their personal devices and more importantly, personal data.”

Over the past year, the vaccine rollout has advanced at different rates across the globe, providing plenty of opportunities for hackers. McAfee Advanced Threat researchers found that hackers are hiding malware and malicious links inside fakes vaccination appointments and registration display ads. These have the potential to download malware onto a person’s device that displays unwanted ads, as well as activating accessibility features to give the hacker full device control, with the goal of stealing banking details and credentials. According to the research, some of these campaigns worryingly started as early as November last year, before any vaccines had officially been approved, while others continue to appear as countries roll out their vaccination programmes in the fight against COVID-19.

“We’ve seen how the pandemic not only led…

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MDA Sees EW, Cyber For Future Missile Defense – Breaking Defense Breaking Defense

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Missile Defense Agency head Vice Adm. Jon Hill

WASHINGTON: The US is moving away from a Missile Defense Strategy centered on hit-to-kill anti-ballistic missiles to a hybrid force that includes directed energy weapons and electronic warfare/cyber options, according to Vice Adm. Jon Hill, who heads the Missile Defense Agency.

“The future will be a mix of kinetic and non-kinetic, it will be a mix of hard kill and soft kill, because of where the threat is going to. The threat will drive us to do something different,” he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) today.

Hill would not specify exactly what kinds of ‘non-kinetic’ and ‘soft-kill’ technologies MDA might be investing in, citing secrecy restrictions, but confirmed that investments are being made.

“We are making investments in that area — most of it’s in an area where I can’t talk about here — but the future of missile defense will be different because of the threat,” he said.

DoD is about to launch a new Missile Defense Review, Hill said, with the last one released in January 2019 but actually completed in 2017. And that review will be firmly based on defending against emerging threats, he stressed.

“What you’re seeing today is not a simple ballistic missile going in, what you’re seeing are ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, aircraft, unmanned vehicles,” he said. “So, the real challenge today is how do we holistically understand that integrated air/missile defense picture, and now you go outside of just missile defense review that’s focused on the Missile Defense Agency. … You have to, by default, look at the whole threat space, and then what capabilities do we have, and what can we afford to procure over time.”

Indeed, in recent years, DoD has moved from talking about, and organizing its budget around, ballistic missile defense and the MDA budget basket. Instead, it has begun to refer to “missile defense and defeat” — a concept that includes the air defense and cruise missile defense budgets of the various services. DoD asked for a total of $8.9 billion for MDA in its fiscal 2022 budget request, and another $2.7 billion in service air and hypersonic…

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