T-Mobile is investigating a claim that the personal data of more than 100 million customers has been breached, the company said Sunday.
A poster on an underground forum claimed the hack. If true, nearly all T-Mobile’s 104.8 million subscribers would be affected.
“We are aware of claims made in an underground forum and have been actively investigating their validity. We do not have any additional information to share at this time,” a T-Mobile spokesperson said in a statement.
Vice, which first reported the claims, said the forum’s post did not mention T-Mobile. However, the hacker told Vice the obtained data of more than 100 million people came from T-Mobile servers.
The data included information such as social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses and driver licenses information, Vice said. The hacker also claimed to have obtained the IMEI numbers, unique fingerprints identifying mobile devices.
On the underground forum, the seller asks for 6 bitcoin, around $270,000, for a subset of the data containing 30 million social security numbers and driver licenses.
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