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T-Mobile denied hack

by on10 June 2009

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Hacker got data but did not get the network

T-Mobile
has denied that data posted to  security e-mail list Full Disclosure over the weekend was obtained from its network.

Although T-Mobile has confirmed that the data was real it denies that the phone company's network was not hacked or breached. The poster claimed that he had hacked into to T-Mobile and stolen the data thanks to poor security at the telco.

T-Mobile said it was investigating how the information was obtained, but if it was not a network hack then the 'hacker' must have nicked it from trash bins outside the outfit's offices. The hacker claimed to have more information saying that it had databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009.

He offered to flog the data to the highest bidder and included a bunch of lines of codes that look like they reference some operating systems and possibly IP addresses.

But T-Mobile said the data was not customer data.  It had identified the document from which information was copied, and believe possession of this alone is not enough to cause harm to our customers.
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