According to the Wall Street Journal, the person behind T-Mobile’s recent security breach that affected more than 50 million customers is a 21-year-old named John Binns. ” Binns said he broke through the T-mobile defenses after discovering an unprotected router exposed on the internet, after scanning the carrier’s internet addresses for weak spots using a publicly available tool,” reports Axios. From the report: “I was panicking because I had access to something big,” he wrote in Telegram messages to the Journal. “Their security is awful.” “Generating noise was one goal,” Binns said. He declined to say whether he sold any of the information he stole, or whether he was paid for the hack.
Some of the information exposed in the breach included names, dates of birth, social security numbers and personal ID information. The breach is being investigated Seattle’s FBI office, according to the Journal.
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