T-Mobile is investigating allegations that hackers have stolen data such as phone numbers, names, SSNs, and driver's license information associated with more than 100 million people from servers.
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T-Mobile says it is investigating forum posts claiming to sell large amounts of personal data. The forum post itself doesn't mention T-Mobile, but the seller says he's got data related to more than 100 million people on the motherboard, and that data comes from the T-Mobile server.
According to the seller, the data includes social security numbers, phone numbers, names, addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver's license information.
The motherboard reviewed the sample data to make sure it contained accurate information about T-Mobile's customers.
"T-Mobile USA. Complete customer information," the seller told Motherboard in an online chat. The seller said it had compromised multiple servers related to T-Mobile.
At the Underground Forum, sellers are demanding 6 Bitcoins (about $ 270,000) for a subset of their data, including 30 million Social Security numbers and driver's licenses. The seller said he is selling the rest of the data personally at this time.
They say T-Mobile seems to have kicked them out of the hacked server, but the seller has already downloaded the data locally.
T-Mobile repeatedly refused to answer follow-up questions about the scale of the breach.
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