T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
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#3Everyone's security is awful, as the penalty for failure is less than the expense required to make it secure. Until the former becomes higher the latter will guarantee insecurity rules.
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#4I don't know if this is still the case, but in the past when I changed a line to a different SIM on T-Mobile an alert about the SIM change was texted to me, on the new SIM. :/
It didn't inspire much confidence in me regarding their security practices
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#5Blame the victim. The reality is, it’s all about incentives. He is going to make a few million. If their security were great they’d still have gotten hacked. Everyone who knows anything about computers knows, where there’s a will there’s a way. You cannot stop a determined hacker. Full stop. The problem is there are great incentives and not enough deterrents. Bitcoin. This will only get worse until the public decides it’s had enough. I’m already there. It’s an education problem now.
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#6Been a T-Mobile customer for ages. Sim swaps are too easy. 2 factor is a joke. This is like the 3rd time my data has been lifted. But I stay with them, why? Because I have 3 free lines, unlimited everything, for $32 a month. They have crazy phone trade in deals from time to time, T-Mobile tuesday usually nets me 15c off per gallon at shell. Am I happy that they keep getting hacked? Absolutely not, but I'm happy pretty much any phone with a sim card works, my bill is low, and I have 5G pretty much everywhere.
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#7It would be nice to be able to open these accounts without providing PII, so that it would be harder to attack specific users, and breaches would not be so damaging to customers.
This US trend of requiring government-issued ID for even routine transactions (like phone service) that aren’t ID-related is insane and dangerous.
Re: T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
#8Been a T-Mobile customer for ages. Sim swaps are too easy. 2 factor is a joke. This is like the 3rd time my data has been lifted. But I stay with them, why? Because I have 3 free lines, unlimited everything, for $32 a month. They have crazy phone trade in deals from time to time, T-Mobile tuesday usually nets me 15c off per gallon at shell. Am I happy that they keep getting hacked? Absolutely not, but I'm happy prett…
Similar for me, I have 4 lines (2 I’m using) unlimited everything, no data caps for $100 a month. I looked at other options and there’s nothing close that compares.
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#9I don't know if this is still the case, but in the past when I changed a line to a different SIM on T-Mobile an alert about the SIM change was texted to me, on the new SIM. :/ It didn't inspire much confidence in me regarding their security practices
Once there was a billing snafu and they cut off my line, with no notice given. I was freaking out a bit cause I thought it might be a SIM swap attack or something. After figuring it out and getting reconnected, I realized that actually they had told me about it. Via a text message. To the phone number they disconnected. After they disconnected it.
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#10Let's see how T-Mobile's security compares to life in prison, criminal.