Alleged T-Mobile Hacker Comes Forward To Insult Its ‘Awful’ Security System
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In a rather strange turn of events following T-Mobile’s latest data breach which saw a total of 54 million active and former customers’ details being compromised, the hacker has come forward to share his experience.
A 21-year-old John Binns, an American who moved to Turkey a few years ago, told The Wall Street Journal via Telegram messages that he was behind the attack. He reportedly had a trove of evidence to back up his own crime.
Detailing his process, he apparently broke through the barriers after using an easily accessible tool to locate an exposed router. Then once he was in, it was field day. To reach the information of tens of millions of users took him a week, he says, like it’s no big deal.
He then proceeds to call the security system “awful.”
As if this wasn’t already a little weird, Binns also states that the reason he did this was to create somewhat of a ruckus so he could draw widespread attention to himself. He had been kidnapped in Germany, he claims, and has been placed into a fake mental hospital. Presumably, he’s using this new “platform” to amplify a cry for help.
Unlike his claims of being the mastermind behind the hack, he didn’t come prepared with any evidence to support this one.
Regardless of how this story unfolds, it doesn’t change the fact that this isn’t the first major data leak that has compromised T-Mobile customers in the last year or two.
If anything, the mere fact that it was apparently so easy to penetrate the database of an organization of this scale is simply alarming.
[via Engadget, image via Mihai_Andritoiu / Shutterstock.com]
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