T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach

(Reuters) -T-Mobile is investigating a claim on an on-line dialogue board put up which says the non-public data of over 100 million customers were breached, the firm said.

“We are responsive to claims made in an underground dialogue board and were actively investigating their validity. We create now not collect any extra info to portion at present,” a T-Mobile spokesperson said in a assertion to Reuters.

U.S.-based mostly completely digital media outlet Vice first reported here the claims of an info breach. Reuters has now not been capable of ascertain the veracity of the dialogue board’s put up.

In accordance with the myth in Vice’s Motherboard, the dialogue board’s put up does now not mention T-Mobile, nonetheless the hacker steered Vice they’ve bought data of over 100 million folks and that the details came from T-Mobile servers.

The details included info equivalent to social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses and driver licenses info, the myth added.

Within the on-line dialogue board, the hacker is soliciting for six bitcoin for a subset of the details containing 30 million social security numbers and driver licenses, while the relaxation of the details is being sold privately, in accordance with the Vice myth.