Accounts Compromised
Verizon Prepaid Suffers Data Breach
According to an article in BleepingComputer, some Verizon Prepaid customers were the unfortunate recipients of a message from Verizon notifying them that their accounts have been compromised. Verizon has told the unfortunate subscribers that a third party was able to see the last four digits of the credit card used
Read MoreVisible Latest Wireless Provider To Be Impacted By A Security Breach
Update 10/13/2021 – Visible has issued the following statement to BestMVNO.com in regards to the recent security incident detailed in the article below: “Visible is aware of an issue in which some member accounts were accessed and/or charged without their authorization. As soon as we were made aware of the
Read MoreT-Mobile Customers Experience Theft Of Phone Numbers And Money Via Port Out Scam, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Many months ago I told the story of how one thieve managed to steal and port someone’s phone number out of AT&T and use it to gain access to the victim’s bank account. Unfortunately, this wasn’t an isolated incident. Sometime in December of 2017, police in Redmond, Washington began receiving
Read MoreCoding Error On MetroPCS Website Potentially Exposes Sensitive Information of 10 Million+ Customers
More than 10 million MetroPCS customers had their personally identifiable information put at risk by a coding error on the companies website, although to obtain the information one would have to know the phone number of a MetroPCS customer. Armed with a subscribers phone number a potential hacker would have
Read MoreExperian Compromised: Data Breach Impacts Approximately 15 Million T-Mobile Customers
T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced that they have been notified by Experian that Experian has experienced a data breach. Experian is a vendor that processes credit applications for T-Mobile. According to Legere a hacker has acquired the records of approximately 15 million people. Those who have applied for service
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