The US servers of the telecommunication giant, T-Mobile, has confirmed that they have been struck by a devastating data breach which has infected 2 million of their users. According to reports, the cybercriminals have exposed customers’ name, billing zip code, phone number, email address, account number, and account type (prepaid or postpaid).
Despite the damage being done, T-Mobile has confirmed that credit card numbers, social security numbers, or passwords, were not compromised in the security breach. 2 million is a large amount of data to be stolen by hackers, but to provide some reference, T-Mobile has roughly 80 million users, so although this data breach needs to be taken seriously for obvious reasons, the amount of customers affected is roughly only 3% of their entire customer base.
According to a spokesperson at the company, hackers were able to access T-Mobile servers through an API that “didn’t contain any financial data or other very sensitive data,” adding “[they] found it quickly and shut it down very fast.”
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