T-Mobile denies server breach in hacking claim
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Wireless carrier T-Mobile said Tuesday that reports that its servers had been hacked over the weekend were inaccurate, after a posting by supposed hackers claimed they had stolen sensitive data from the company's networks.
T-Mobile servers were not breached, the company said, adding that "the company is conducting a thorough investigation and at this time has found no evidence that customer information, or other company information, has been compromised."
On Monday, the company had responded to the posting at a security site called Full Disclosure by issuing a statement that it had "identified the document from which information was copied," leading some media outlets to surmise that the company's network security had indeed been breached.
The data was being offered to the "highest bidder," the hackers said in the posting, which also contained a list of IP addresses. They claimed to have accessed T-Mobile's financial reports and "databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from their servers."
T-Mobile denied that was the case, saying in the statement that the company has taken additional network security measures as "a precaution."
Some security experts yesterday questioned the authenticity of the hacking claim, saying it was likely a hoax.
However, in a report published Monday on InformationWeek.com, a security expert from ScanSafe, Mary Landesman, was quoted as saying the long list of source locations and IP addresses involved was "indicative of a serious attack."
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