T-Cell Information Safety is “Terrible”

Earlier this month, it was reported that T-Cell bought hacked once more and it was dangerous. Just about every little thing T-Cell has for a buyer, reminiscent of social safety numbers and even machine ID numbers have been compromised, with the quantity of uncovered individuals reported to be round 50 million. Thanks, T-Cell.

Now, a person by the title of John Binns is claiming accountability for the hack, even going into element of how he did it. In keeping with Binns, who spoke with the Wall Road Journal, he would scan for unprotected routers. As we will all see, he discovered one, which allowed him to entry a Washington state knowledge heart that saved credentials for over 100 servers. Binns known as T-Cell’s safety “terrible” and even stated he started to panic when he realized how a lot knowledge he had entry to.

T-Cell claims it has since closed the entry that allowed for this to occur.

It ought to be famous that 21-year outdated Binns is a little bit of an fascinating particular person. He already has a historical past with regulation enforcement, having sued the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and different authorities businesses to inform him what info they’ve on him. He additionally accuses the federal government of attacking with him psychic and vitality weapons, in addition to being concerned in his kidnapping and torture.

So, yeah, I’m gonna see about altering my social safety quantity. Is {that a} factor?

// WSJ