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AT&T Denies Data Breach After Hacker Auctions 70 Million User Database AT&T says that they did not suffer a data breach after a well-known threat actor claimed to be selling a database containing the personal information of 70 million customers. The threat actor, known as ShinyHunters, began selling this database yesterday on a hacking forum with a starting
T-Mobile says hackers stole records belonging to 48.6 million individuals T-Mobile has confirmed that attackers who recently breached its servers stole files containing the personal information of tens of millions of individuals. The massive breach impacts roughly 7.8 million T-Mobile postpaid customers, 850,000 T-Mobile prepaid users, and approximately 40 million former or prospective ones. Adding it all up,
T-Mobile Confirms Servers Were Hacked, Investigates Data Breach T-Mobile has confirmed that threat actors hacked their servers in a recent cyber attack but still investigate whether customer data was stolen. Yesterday, news broke that a threat actor was selling the alleged personal data for 100 million T-Mobile customers after they breached database servers operated by
Education Giant Pearson Fined $1M for Downplaying Data Breach The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that Pearson, a British multinational educational publishing and services company, has settled charges of mishandling the disclosure process for a 2018 data breach discovered in March 2019. Pearson agreed to pay a $1 million civil money penalty