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U.S. phone giant T - Mobile was hacked as part of a broad cyberattack on U.S. and external telephone and internet companies in recent months , according to the Wall Street Journal .
T - Mobile said it was “ closely monitoring this manufacture - broad flak , and at this fourth dimension , T - Mobile systems and datum have not been impacted in any pregnant room , and we have no evidence of impacts to client information , ” fit in to a program line partake in with TechCrunch .
The Wall Street Journalfirst reportedthe break at T - Mobile , citing origin familiar with the run targeting telecommunication titan .
A T - Mobile spokesperson , who did not provide their name , would not say if the company had the technical mean , such as logarithm , to regulate what , if any , customer data was get at or exfiltrated . The spokesperson did not argufy the Journal ’s coverage .
T - Mobile is the former telecommunication fellowship in late weeks state to be stumble by an invasion , linked to a series of cyberattacks targeting phone and cyberspace company , let in AT&T , Verizon , and Lumen ( formerly CenturyLink ) . The hacks , direct by a chemical group of hack working for the Formosan government dub Salt Typhoon , targeted the wiretap system that U.S. phone and net companies arerequired under a 30 - year - old Union law to allow government accession to client data point .
The FBI and U.S. cybersecurity agency CISAwent public this weekto discourage the wider industry of linked cyberattacks , charge China of conducting a “ broad and meaning cyber espionage political campaign ” aimed at place the call record and text messages of luxuriously - range American functionary , including presidential candidates .
This is the 9th known cyberattack to direct T - Mobile in recent years , according toan on-going count by TechCrunch . The most recent breach at T - Mobile was in 2023 , lead to the thievery of personal information from 37 million T - Mobile client .
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Updated with comment from T - Mobile .
