T-Mobile says the attack didn’t affect customer data.
The Lapsus$ hacking group stole T-Mobile’s source code in a series of breaches that took place in March, as first reported by, and says the “systems accessed contained no customer or government information or other similarly sensitive information.”
In copies of private messages obtained by Krebs, the Lapsus$ hacking group discussed targeting T-Mobile in the week prior to. After purchasing employees’ credentials online, the members could use the company’s internal tools — like Atlas, T-Mobile’s customer management system — to perform SIM swaps. This type of attack involves hijacking a target’s mobile phone by transferring its number to a device owned by the attacker.
“Several weeks ago, our monitoring tools detected a bad actor using stolen credentials to access internal systems that house operational tools software,” T-Mobile said in an emailed statement to. “Our systems and processes worked as designed, the intrusion was rapidly shut down and closed off, and the compromised credentials used were rendered obsolete.”
T-Mobile has been the victim of several attacks over the years. Although this particular hack didn’t affect customers’ data,
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