Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. The telecommunication giant is in the process of notifying impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday T-Mobile confirmed a data breach but announced that it was still investigating the extent of the security breach. The company announced to have started a “deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2021

SITA is a multinational information technology company providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

. “On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Bad news for T-Mobile prepaid customer, the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a new data breach incident. The US branch of the telecommunications giant T -Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Hackers have stolen O2 customers’ data from a database run by Aerial Direct , one of the largest UK partners of the telecommunications services provider. “We recently became aware that some of our customers’ personal information stored on one of our databases has been accessed without permission. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2021

Mint Mobile discloses a data breach, an unauthorized attacker gained access to subscribers’ account information and ported phone numbers. Mint Mobile is an American telecommunications company which sells mobile phone services and operates as an MVNO on T-Mobile’s cellular network in the United States.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

Microsoft is investigating claims that the Lapsus$ hacking group breached its internal Azure DevOps source code repositories. Microsoft announced that is investigating claims that the Lapsus$ cybercrime gang breached their internal Azure DevOps source code repositories and stolen data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

New problems for the wireless carrier T-Mobile that disclosed a data breach that exposed some of the customers’ personal information. A data breach notification published by the telecommunications giant on its website revealed that the security breach impacted both employees and customers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

T-Mobile is investigating a possible data breach after a threat actor published a post on a forum claiming to be selling the personal data of its customers. We do not have any additional information to share at this time.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The agency sent a data breach notification to its employees last week informing them of a security breach that took place last year between May and July.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Belgian intelligence service VSSE accused Alibaba of ‘possible espionage’ at European hub in Liege A WhatsApp zero-day exploit can cost several million dollars CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity and Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog NATO is investigating a new cyber attack claimed by the SiegedSec group Global CRM Provider Exposed (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Following the recently announced data leak from Sony, Ransomed.vc group claimed the hack of the Japanese giant NTT Docomo. Following the recently announced data leak from Sony , the notorious ransomware syndicate Ransomed.vc announced a new victim today in face of the largest Japanese telecommunication giant NTT Docomo.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile , MailChimp and OpenAI in 2023).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. Early this week, the company confirmed that the breach impacted nearly 2.1 SecurityAffairs – hacking, Optus). million individuals. said Gough. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

Video game company Ubisoft has suffered a ‘cyber security incident’ that had a severe impact on games, systems, and services. The rumors of a cyber attack against Ubisoft circulated online in the last few days, while data extortion group LAPSUS$ claimed to have hacked the company. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ubisoft).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Threat actors that goes online with the moniker ZeroX claim to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas giant end it is offering for sale it on multiple hacking forums. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Saudi Aramco). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Global Risks Report , says, “The largest (data breach) was in India, where the government ID database, Aadhaar, reportedly suffered multiple breaches that potentially compromised the records of all 1.1 billion registered citizens.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2023

Regional government telecommunications secretary Segi Marcén said that no ransom would be paid by Spanish authorities. The authorities are investigating into the security breach, the hospital did not explain if it has suffered a data breach.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

The Lapsus$ extortion group claims to have stolen sensitive data from the identity and access management giant Okta solutions. The gang announced the alleged hack through its Telegram channel and shared a series of screenshots as proof of the hack. “We will provide updates as more information becomes available.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats 38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers Clorox Blames Damaging Cyberattack for Product Shortage MGM losing up to $8.4M

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

Early this month, the ransomware gang hit the websites under Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) causing the unavailability of COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens. The gang also targeted the South American telecommunication providers Claro and Embratel. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lapsus$ ransomware).

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Media Ransomware Telecommunications Accountability 140

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

The database contains personally-identifiable and subscription information for 44,000,000 Pakistanis, including customer full names, home addresses (city, region, street name), National identification (CNIC) numbers, mobile phone numbers, landline numbers, and dates of subscription. – Database apparently got hacked in 2017.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Telecommunications giant Lumen Technologies discovered two cybersecurity incidents, including a ransomware attack. In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, on March 27, 2023, Lumen announced two cybersecurity incidents.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2019

US telecommunications company Sprint revealed that hackers compromised an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com “add a line” website. “On June 22, Sprint was informed of unauthorized access to your Sprint account using your account credentials via the Samsung.com “add a line” website.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance. In the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Security researchers from ESET revealed that the infamous Russian hacker group known as Energetic Bear is behind the hack of two San Francisco International Airport (SFO) websites. Now ESET researchers are blaming the Russia-linked APT group for the attacks that took place in March, the hackers also disclosed a data breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2019

Paige Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the Capital One hack and attacks on 30 other organizations has been indicted on wire fraud and computer fraud. Paige Thompson, a transgender woman, suspected to be the hacker behind the Capital One hack and attacks on 30 other organizations has been indicted on wire fraud and computer fraud.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

“ Now the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority clarified in an official statement that local laws “prohibit any kind of data breach and unlawful interception” “The TRA reaffirms that all certified telecommunications applications in the UAE are in compliance with these standards.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

. “As part of our regular darkweb monitoring, our researchers came across the data leak of LG Electronics been published by the Maze ransomware operators. Just after the WorldNet Telecommunications, the LG electronics fall as a victim of the Maze ransomware operators.” ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Syniverse service provider discloses a security breach, threat actors have had access to its databases since 2016 and gained some customers’ credentials. The company is a privileged target for threat actors that could hit the firm to access their customers’ information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyberespionage).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In February 2021, the telecommunications provider T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Set strict security protocols enabling employees to effectively verify customer credentials before changing their numbers to a new device.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware). The post FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile confirmed the LAPSUS$ extortion group gained access to its networks in March. The popular investigator and journalist Brian Krebs first surmised that the LAPSUS$ gang has breached T-Mobile after he reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the cybercrime group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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