T-Mobile seeks to satisfy users’ fears in wake of massive data breach

As T-Mobile continues to investigate a major data breach earlier this month, the person who claims to have carried out the attack described the network company’s security as critical.

According to “John Binns,” the hacker, apparently a 21-year-old American who immigrated to Turkey several years ago, contacted the Wall Street Journal via the Telegram messaging program and discussed the details of the attack before it became public knowledge.

Binns said he used a well-known tool designed to detect unprotected routes to start the practice. The effort proved fruitful, opening more than 100 servers at a data center in East Wenatchee, Washington, about 90 miles east of T-Mobile’s Seattle headquarters.

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T-Mobile, which last year merged with Sprint in a $26 billion deal, revealed that more than 50 million people are affected by the data breach, including current and former customers, as well as former customers who have applied for credit on T-Mobile.

The stolen information includes customer surnames and surnames, date of birth, Social Security number, and driver’s license/ID details. Investigations into the attack are ongoing. The incident is a major difficulty for T-Mobile, especially as it follows a similar attack three years ago.

In a recent message on the latest security picture, posted last week, T-Mobile said: “We are continuing to take steps to protect everyone at risk from this attack. We have sent links to millions of customers and other affected people and we support them in various ways. ”