T-Mobile Net Reportedly Hit by Hacker/Extortion Attack

[Osiris]

T-Mobile Net Reportedly Hit by Hacker/Extortion Attack

I read this story twice and the one thing that comes to mind is nobody at T-Mobile has ever seen a ransom movie. Ever. That is how every bad guy on the planet gets tripped up in the movies, the part where they try to collect the extortion money. Maybe if T-Mobile watched a few more movies they'd catch these extortionist.

Claims have been made by an unknown party that they have compromised the US cellular network carrier T-Mobile and have managed to extract all of the corporate data, including databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from company servers and full financial data up to the present time.
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[the0wner]

Wow must've been a really good hacker..

 

[Kharn]

Wow must've been a really good hacker..

Not really - the whole TJX fiasco was performed by a few guys who found a open access point while out war driving, they had lax internal security and a very bad password policy and it lead to all the financial data getting copied.

 

[the0wner]

Not really - the whole TJX fiasco was performed by a few guys who found a open access point while out war driving, they had lax internal security and a very bad password policy and it lead to all the financial data getting copied.

Can they do that to any other networks if they want? or they're more securied?

 

[Kharn]

Well yea, for instance I might not be able to get easy instant access but there is nothing to stop me with a enought time breaking any wireless encription and gathering any data from open shares or via packet capture.

 

[the0wner]

sucks that im with tmobile -.-