Newscenter Media News T-Mobile has acknowledged that its network was one of the compromised systems in a malicious Chinese cyber-espionage campaign that infiltrated several foreign and U.S. telecom firms.
The report published by Wall Street Journal quoting persons with knowledge of the situation did not reveal if T-Mobile had the technical means, such as logs, to determine what, if any, customer data was accessed or compromised.
The Journal added that hackers associated with a Chinese intelligence agency had gained access to T-Mobile as part of a months-long effort to eavesdrop on high-value intelligence targets’ mobile communications, though it did not specify the exact time of the incident.
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T-Mobile said it was “closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant way, and we have no evidence of impacts to customer information,” according to a statement shared with TechCrunch.
A number of intrusions targeting phone and internet providers, such as AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen (formerly CenturyLink), have been linked to T-Mobile, the most recent telecommunications business to be impacted by an infiltration in recent weeks.
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