"We are aware of claims made in an underground forum
and have been actively investigating their validity. We do not have any
additional information to share at this time," a T-Mobile spokesperson
said in a statement to Reuters.
US-based digital media outlet Vice first reported the claims
of a data breach. Reuters has not been able to check the veracity of the
forum's post.
According to the report in Vice's Motherboard, the forum's
post does not mention T-Mobile, but the hacker told Vice they have obtained data
of over 100 million people and that the data came from T-Mobile servers.
The data included information such as social security
numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, and driver licenses
information, the report added.
In the online forum, the hacker is asking for 6 Bitcoin for
a subset of the data containing 30 million social security numbers and driver
licenses, while the rest of the data is being sold privately, according to the
Vice report. Bitcoin price in India stood at Rs. 36.53 lakhs as of 10am IST on
August 16.
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