When authentication measures are not properly implemented, malicious actors can bypass API restrictions and potentially access sensitive customer data.
This means that APIs can provide an obvious gateway for hackers to access private information.
#Data breach tmobile software
The company said that it has notified federal agencies and it started to reach out to affected customers.Īn API is a way for software to easily and automatically retrieve data from a database. T-Mobile believes the initial breach happened on November 25, 2022, but the threat actor extracted more data on January 5th, 2023 through the same application programming interface (API) it initially used. If you have an account with T-Mobile, make sure you take all security precautions to encrypt your network and protect your digital identity from threat actors. Attackers obtained customer information and T-Mobile account information each time. Since 2018, the company has been affected by 7 other security breaches that resulted in the loss of internal data. This is not T-Mobile’s first breach in recent years. The threat actor extracted only basic information like customer name, email, address, phone numbers, and subscription plan features. Up to 37 million prepaid and postpaid accounts were affected by this T-Mobile breach, but no financial and password information was lost. T-Mobile reported on Januthat it sustained data breach: a bad actor extracted limited information from its customers’ accounts.
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