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Mandatory Facial Recognition for New SIMs and New Phones in South Korea
Trials involving real-life customers will begin imminently with the intention to demand facial recognition for all new mobile lines from March 23, 2026.
SK Telecom Loses 840,000 Mobile Users after Data Breach; Changes CEO
Jung Jaihun is tasked with shifting the emphasis away from the losses caused by this year's massive data breach and towards the value created by serving AI.
Cybersecurity Professor Warns Against Treating Compliance as an Exercise in Procurement
Professor Kim Yongdae of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology has a message for telcos that get hacked and for the regulators that oversee them.
Belgium Tightens Controls on SIM Swaps Following Orange Privacy Breach
Hackers obtained data about 850,000 customers of Orange Belgium.
Data Breach at Bouyges Telecom Affects 6.4mn Customers
Management gave the usual blah blah about how much they care about the security of customer data, except this time it was said in French.
SK Telecom Gives 50% Discount to Stem Exodus of Customers Following HSS Data Breach
CEO Yoo Young-sang announced a KRW500bn (USD370mn) customer giveaway alongside a KRW700bn (USD510mn) plan to invest in security.
Phone of Top White House Aide Hacked and Impersonated; AI Vishing Suspected
Susie Wiles, Chief of Staff in the Trump administration, was previously attacked by agents of Iran.
Buggy IMS Implementation Caused UK Mobile Operator to Broadcast the Location of Users
Anyone with a basic understanding of networks could have tracked customers of O2 UK due to a mistake with how a Mavenir IMS had been set up.
SK Telecom Shares Fall 7%; Thousands Struggle to Get Replacement SIMs after Data Breach
Customers report frustration with long waits at stores and online after the Korean telco promised free replacement SIMs to 25mn phone users despite having only 1mn SIMs in stock.
SK Telecom Offers Free Replacement of SIMs to 23mn Customers Following Hack
Malware was discovered in the South Korean telco's Home Subscriber Server.
The Abuse of Global Title: The World Is Bigger Than You Think
Everybody should support the GSMA code seeking to reduce the abuse of Global Title, but very few have. The abuse of Global Title represents the tip of an international iceberg of corruption stretching from the oppression of journalists in Cambodia to state-sanctioned surveillance in Chile.
T‑Mobile US Agrees to USD31.5mn Deal over Data Breach
The US telco has also agreed to strengthen its cybersecurity.
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