T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches

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T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in the wave of recently reported telecom breaches conducted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to private communications, call records, and law enforcement information requests.

“T-Mobile is closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant way, and we have no evidence of impacts to customer information,” T-Mobile told the Wall Street Journal, which first reported about the breach.

“Due to our security controls, network structure and diligent monitoring and response we have seen no significant impacts to T-Mobile systems or data,” T-Mobile told BleepingComputer after the publishing of this story.*

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/t-mobile-confirms-it-was-hacked-in-recent-wave-of-telecom-breaches/

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*I’ve had these clowns for a carrier before, both top-tier and as an MVNO they own, and that last paragraph just is killing me! I can’t stop laughing. Can you have a stroke from laughing too hard? Someone call a doctor! What a boxcar of corporate horse manure!! And have you seen the CEO salaries over there?? Oh, there goes a blood vessel now…

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“T-Mobile is closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant way, and we have no evidence of impacts to customer information,

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/chinese-hacked-us-isps-using-backdoors-opened-for-us-intelligence/

to enable the theft of customer call records data, the compromise of private communications of a limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in government or political activity, and the copying of certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders.

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US adds 9th telcom to list of companies hacked by Chinese-backed Salt Typhoon cyberespionage

U.S. officials have added a ninth telecommunications company to the list of entities compromised by a sweeping Chinese-linked cyberespionage operation known as Salt Typhoon, a top White House official said Friday…

..unnamed telecom was added to the list after the U.S. government shared guidance on how to detect and defend against the operation. Officials have previously alleged that the attackers targeted Verizon, AT&T, Lumen and others…

US government tells officials, politicians to ditch regular calls and texts

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