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Inside T-Mobile’s Response to the Salt Typhoon Hack: Cut the Cord, Save the Trophy

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Sometimes the best cybersecurity move isn’t a patch or a firewall rule, it’s a pair of scissors. That’s more or less what happened when T-Mobile’s engineers discovered a compromised router at a California data center as part of the broader Salt Typhoon hacking campaign, and the Un-carrier’s response has become a story worth knowing if you’re a T-Mobile customer wondering whether your data was ever at risk. Here’s what happened, as reported by[read full article]

Senator Presses AT&T and Verizon to Prove They’re Safe After Massive Hack

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A major telecom breach that rattled the industry last year is once again making waves in Washington. Senator Maria Cantwell is now demanding answers from AT&T and Verizon (two of the biggest players in the U.S. telecom market) after a sweeping cyberattack raised questions about how secure our networks really are. As reported by The Verge, Sen. Cantwell has asked cybersecurity firm Mandiant to … [read full article]

T-Mobile Managed to Stop a Cyber Attack in Time

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We’ve long heard of stories of wireless carriers getting hacked and discovering it too late. This time, however, it’s time to give credit where it is due: T-Mobile was able to catch a cyberattack in progress and shut it down before customer records could be accessed.  As reported by Bloomberg, the Un-carrier got to detect suspicious activity. True enough, they caught the cyber criminals before they had … [read full article]

Chinese Cyber Attack Hits U.S. Telecom Firms: T-Mobile, AT&T, and More Compromised

Update (11/27/24 8:18 pm EST): T-Mobile Chief Security Officer, Jeff Simon, released an update regarding the alleged cyber attack. The Un-carrier confirmed that they “detected attempts to infiltrate” the system by bad actors. Fortunately, T-Mobile’s defenses worked as intended and protected “sensitive customer information, prevented any disruption of our services, and stopped the attack from advancing. Bad actors had no access to sensitive customer data (including calls, voicemails or texts).“ You can read the rest of … [read full article]