T-Mobile, 37M victims. How many other carriers soon announce Millions more? Ditch the cell phone.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

[brush]

1. What does this mean?

[Celerity]

19. T-Mobile says hacker accessed personal data of 37 million customers

In a financial filing on Thursday, T-Mobile revealed that a hacker accessed a trove of personal data belonging to 37 million customers.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/19/t-mobile-data-breach/

The telecom giant said that the “bad actor” started stealing the data, which includes “name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number and information such as the number of lines on the account and plan features,” since November 25.

In the SEC filing, T-Mobile said it detected the breach more than a month later, on January 5, and that within a day it had fixed the problem that the hacker was exploiting.

The hackers, according to T-Mobile, didn’t breach any company system but rather abused an application programming interface, or API.

“Our investigation is still ongoing, but the malicious activity appears to be fully contained at this time, and there is currently no evidence that the bad actor was able to breach or compromise our systems or our network,” the company wrote.

[Javaman]

2. ?

Link? Context?

[pnwest]

3. LOL, right? I sat for a few seconds waiting for the screen to finish loading...

Zip Nada Zilch

[Javaman]

7. Since the op isn't responding. Here's a link

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/19/tech/tmobile-hack/index.html

[haele]

4. Easy to say, hard to do. For some people, their phone is their business device.

Computer, cash register and where they manage their hosted website.
For other people, especially those who are not in a secure living situation, their phone is where they manage the minutiae of their lives - accounts managements, applications, information searches, gps, home security or monitoring, all sorts of web-based activities - that will normally be handled on a home computer.


Face it, "smart phones" are necessary for a lot of people to go through their day to day and still have time for work or family.

Haele

[Ms. Toad]

24. Aside from all the new user of cell phones,

Back when I was a kid, out on my own for the first time, there were phone booths on every corner so I could call home if I needed to reach a grown-up. (Not only that, but I'm small town America, we could knock on any doir and the resident but only knew you, but your parents and grandparents.)

A cell phone is a matter of safety, these days.

[gldstwmn]

9. It's not just being hacked by the reds.

Our privacy faded away with the last century.

How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal Surveillance Program to Sweep up Millions of Our Financial Records

Last year, Sen. Ron Wyden raised alarms about one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent memory. Sen. Wyden revealed that the Arizona attorney general’s office, in collaboration with the Phoenix Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, had engaged in the indiscriminate collection of money transfer records for transactions exceeding $500 sent to or from Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as to or from Mexico. Any time anyone in the U.S. used companies like Western Union or MoneyGram to send or receive money to or from one of these states or Mexico — whether to send a remittance home, or help a relative with an emergency expense, or pay a bill — a record of their transaction was deposited into a database controlled by the Arizona attorney general and shared with other law enforcement agencies.

Sen. Wyden’s revelation left significant questions about the scope and legality of this program unanswered, so the ACLU and the ACLU of Arizona submitted a public records request to the Arizona attorney general’s office to learn more. Today, we are sharing more than 200 documents that shed light on this mass surveillance of Americans’ sensitive financial data.

The records show the state of Arizona sending at least 140 illegal subpoenas to money transfer companies to compel them to turn over customers’ private financial data, amassing it in a huge database and giving virtually unfettered access to thousands of officers from hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the country. The database, run by an organization called the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), contained 145 million records of people’s financial transactions as of 2021, and we have reason to believe it’s still growing.

(snip)

Further, the secrecy surrounding law enforcement access to the TRAC database has far-reaching implications for people who are accused of crimes based on this data but may not have learned it was used to investigate them. We now know of three criminal prosecutions involving TRAC records, but that is surely a tiny fraction, and criminal defense attorneys and judges need to know more.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-the-arizona-attorney-general-created-a-secretive-illegal-surveillance-program

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Thank you, kind of the point I was trying to make. No one cares about privacy because

it’s already been lost…ever since 9/11 relentless erosion…now it’s all normal.

No one seems to care about Nazi Arizona surveillance…cause sure it’s the only government entity doing such a thing!

Resist. This is not freedom.

[gldstwmn]

13. Amen. We need to revisit the Patriot Act and other reforms passed after 9/11.

But we sure as sh*t won't get it done with this congress.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

28. Read a report from feds...foreign mass casualty event in west is not likely...conclusion.

The 9-11 panic, justified or not, now not justified…time to revert to the old days of no fear and no eyes on my information I don’t want eyes on.

Patriot Act is obsolete…but those holding the reigns of that power… won’t part with it easily…it’s power in the hands of a few on an industrial scale.

[Sympthsical]

6. And put pigeonnappers back in business?

Are you mad? It took ten years and 45,000 french fries to get that situation under control.

[herding cats]

8. Also get rid of Nissan & PayPal...

Just to name two more recent breaches. We can add most other places who store our information since so damn many have been breached in the past decade.

It's not specific to telecoms.

[Indykatie]

10. Are We Going to Ditch EVERY Company That Has a Data Breach? Good Luck with That.

"Ditch the cell phone" strikes me as ridiculous advice. The OP might want to google all the companies that had data breaches in the past 24 months or so.

[brooklynite]

11. What in the world does "ditch the cell phone" mean.

Are you communicating with a tin can and string?

And do you imagine the company providing your internet service is inherently better at protecting your account information?

[BannonsLiver]

14. Classic DU Doom thread

[inthewind21]

16. Classic

I didn't think it trough and just reacted thread.

[BannonsLiver]

22. Yes, you e just described a DU doom thread

[Elessar Zappa]

15. No thanks.

[Autumn]

17. Ditch the cell phone? Not going to happen. Pandora's box was opened and out came the cell phone.

T-Mobile subscriber here.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Yeah, I got this text from metroPCS this morning:

IMPORTANT: Some of your information was obtained without authorization. Passwords, SSN, payment methods were NOT affected. Your name, # of lines, contact details and other account information may have been. Learn more metro-tmo.com/CustInfo

So I guess the well-known Nigerian prince is going to have to find another way to contact me about the pending multimillion dollar deposit to my account.

[themaguffin]

20. Jesus, if you can't take the time to explain you post, don't post.

[Iggo]

21. What?

[Ms. Toad]

23. That many people for breast cancer from sticking their cell phone in their bras?

Seriously. Provide some context.

[durablend]

25. Your information was already out on the dark web somewhere

Don't kid yourself thinking otherwise.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

27. Not the point really. Should just give up and let government and corporations have free reign

over your cell phone computers contents, basically unsecured?

Reached a point of normalization where children NEED a cell phone!…and don’t need any privacy either from the world or anyone in it anymore either, all normal…so maybe is a Pandora’s Box?

[MineralMan]

29. Odd, but what was exposed was information most people

share all the time with companies. So, this breach gives away people's names, mailing addresses, email addresses, and the number of cell phones they use? OK, so what?

Everyone already has that information, as far as I know. It doesn't let anyone get the data on your cell phone, your browsing history, or any other such thing. No passwords were disclosed.

I think you're exaggerating this massively.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

30. Corporations and government keeping secret no fly lists, latter also hacked, news du jour.

Giving up privacy so easily and nonchalantly to government and corporations is voluntarily handing over freedom.

America loves freedom? Not so much in reality!

[Chakaconcarne]

26. In addition to all the other things where personal information was hacked and leaked....

I don't think there are enough caves for all of us....

[Raine]

31. I'll keep my T-Mobile phone

it's not the first or I'm sure not the last time what I use or where I shop has been hacked.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

32. What you shop isn't the reason governments foreign and domestic want to compile

a permanent database of citizen mobile computer data, on their own computers.