Scammer Made $25mn by Unlocking Phones Using Stolen T‑Mobile Credentials
Argishti Khudaverdyan used phishing and social engineering to fool T‑Mobile employees into giving him access to corporate systems.
Will the USA Dominate Global Call Authentication? A Conversation with a US Telecoms Legend
Pierce Gorman’s 34 years of engineering for T-Mobile and Sprint included a leading role in the creation of STIR/SHAKEN.
T-Mobile US Offers $350mn Settlement for Data Breach
The mobile operator will also spend another $150mn on upgrading security following a 2021 privacy breach that compromised data relating to 76.6 million people.
LAPSUS$ Stole Source Code from T‑Mobile US
Security researcher Brian Krebs reviewed leaked Telegram chats between two childish members of the LAPSUS$ hacker-extortion gang.
T-Mobile US Data Breach Affects Over 40mn People
The mobile operator said hackers had compromised data for 7.8mn postpaid customers, 850,000 prepaid customers, and 40mn records for former or prospective customers.
Fears of Enormous Data Breach at T-Mobile US
An underground forum was used to advertise the sale of personal data that hackers claim to have stolen from T-Mobile servers.
Research Shows Recycling Phone Numbers Threatens Privacy
Academics from Princeton found more than half the numbers they obtained could be linked to personal data about former users.
$200mn Settlement for Telco That Took Government Subsidies for 885,000 Ineligible Customers
T-Mobile USA will pay the FCC’s largest fixed-amount civil penalty as redress for Sprint wrongly claiming Lifeline payments.
T-Mobile Outage Caused 250mn Calls to Fail
The FCC said a cascade of failures would have been prevented if T-Mobile USA had periodically audited the diversity of their networks.
US Telcos Vulnerable to Prepaid SIM Swaps, Say Researchers
Princeton academics tested how little information was needed to persuade five US mobile telcos to execute a SIM swap.