X-Industry

Cybersecurity staff at US phone provider T-Mobile identified and expelled Chinese hackers from its network in 2024 during a spate of industry-wide hacks by Beijing to steal customer data, and Bloomberg has now published a report on the event.   T-Mobile’s security team resorted to an unusually low-tech fix for a high-tech problem in 2024, physically severing a network cable to cut off Chinese state-backed hackers’ access to its systems.[1]

The dramatic move came amid a sprawling espionage campai

T-Mobile after completing its recent merger with Sprint, ended 2020 by announcing its second data breach of the year.   T-Mobile US, Inc., doing business as T-Mobile, is an American wireless network operator. Its largest shareholder is the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom with a 43% share, with Japanese conglomerate holding company SoftBank Group partially owning the company as well at a 24% share. Its headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington, in the Seattle metropolita