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T-Mobile: API abused to pull data on 37M accounts

T-Mobile US

T-Mobile said an attacker had abused a single API since around Nov 25, 2022. They pulled names, billing addresses, emails, phone numbers, birth dates and plan details for about 37 million accounts until T-Mobile detected it on Jan 5, 2023.

Why this severity: Data breach via API abuse

Started
Jan 5, 2023
Closed
Jan 19, 2023

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Timeline2

  1. T-Mobile 8-K filing discloses about 37 million affected accounts

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  2. T-Mobile detects the API abuse and stops it within a day

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Notes & caveats

Abuse began around Nov 25, 2022 per the 8-K; startedAt is detection.

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