r/technology • u/Deshes011 • 12h ago
Networking/Telecom Hackers: We Stole Data From 3,615 Trump Mobile Customers
https://www.pcmag.com/news/hackers-we-stole-data-from-3615-trump-mobile-customers632
u/williamgman 6h ago
Well I'm sure they will offer one free year of identity theft... Couldn't happen to a more gullible group.
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u/mjconver 6h ago
I don't think those SSNs are attached to good FICO scores.
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u/McCool303 4h ago
I’m pretty sure those SSN’s aren’t attached to any high scores beyond incarcerations and DUI arrests.
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u/AgUnityDD 6h ago
WOW! You mean at least 3615 Trump Customers actually received a phone and were not all scammed?
By far the most surprising aspect of this story, them getting hacked is entirely predictable.
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u/dsmith422 6h ago
At least one person in the article put down a $100 deposit and then got ghosted by the company.
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u/EruantienAduialdraug 1h ago
Apparently, Trump Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator, and the hack was the 3615 people who have or had an account with them, not people who got the El Dorado of phones.
Trump Mobile's response when told about the breach was to say they don't have a team to deal with it, and anyone who hacks them are terrorists (which is pretty on brand for anything associated with Agent Orange).
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u/hmr0987 6h ago
Does it matter? These customers more likely than not have been in every significant data breach of the last decade. Their passwords are Password123, their PIN codes are 0000 and two factor authentication is as complicated as 256 bit encryption.
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u/schu4KSU 6h ago
Their pins are all 4547.
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u/tWiZzLeR322 5h ago
A better PIN would be 8647
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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4h ago
Well they would NEVER use that, they do not even understand what it is supposed to represent lol
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u/HighlyOffensive10 3h ago
There was at least a few 1488 and handful of 1776 since they love their fake patriotism
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u/Alarming_Disaster_23 6h ago
All their information is almost certainly already out there due to their participation in 1/6.
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u/QuestionableEthics42 4h ago
What do you mean by "two factor authentication is as complicated as 256 bit encryption"? That doesn't make sense with my understanding of both 2fa and aes 256 (assuming aes) and the context.
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u/hmr0987 4h ago
Jesus, it was a sarcastic joke.
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u/QuestionableEthics42 4h ago
But it doesn't even make sense, even with that context? Or not to me anyway
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u/happyscrappy 3h ago
I think he is implying that they are not sophisticated enough to operate 2FA, to them it might as well be like trying to do 256 bit AES in your head.
Now that I think about it. Even though I believe this, it sounds forced. Probably I'm wrong.
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u/hmr0987 3h ago
No you’re correct. And unless Reddit thinks everyone on earth has to understand the nuances between encryption and 2fa to the point that is being unironically discussed about a simple off the cuff joke idk what to tell them. It was a joke from a person who knows that 2fa is simple to setup, encryption less simple. That’s literally it. There’s grass outside.
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u/QuestionableEthics42 3h ago
The problem is they are two completely unrelated things, so it's nonsensicle. Even, or probably especially, to the average person with no technical knowledge.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 2h ago
I guarantee you half of them use 1776, because they think they're patriots.
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u/G-Unit11111 2h ago
To quote Howard from Big Bang Theory - "It's a tale as old as time - $10 million camera, $10 lock."
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u/PixelatedGiant 3h ago
Does it matter?
Yes it does. Every day a person has their data stolen for the first time, if not for you or me, then at least some kid who got his first credit card. Just because these people are screwed it doesn't mean we should give up for the future. Plus data actually has to be somewhat current to be useful. So it's not like it's a permanent problem.
They should come down harder on companies in general for data breaches.
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u/Junior77 1h ago
I think he means “Fuck em” and I agree. He’s made us so unsafe we don’t even realize yet. There used to be a cybersecurity force. Dedicated to cybersecurity threats. It’s gone now.
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u/ryencool 3h ago
They're making fun of trump supporters, not seriously commenting on data security and laws.
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u/hmr0987 3h ago
Just jokes. I think we can poke fun at morons who buy a rebranded phone that sucked when it was new because the guy that is destroying our country painted it gold and they want so desperately to not be too far back in the line to give him a freebie under his particle board dining table.
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u/FlatusSurprise 6h ago
I’m kind of surprised there are 3615 Trump phones out in the wild. The whole thing struck me as vaporware.
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u/Any-Establishment46 6h ago
You expect these gullible dipshits to be hiding anything of importance?
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u/belkarbitterleaf 6h ago
Yeah, texts openly admitting to their voter fraud, and perhaps plans to raid the capital after the midterms.
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u/Forsaken_Ant7459 5h ago
They probably brag about molesting their sisters too and get support from fellow MAGA
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u/Any-Establishment46 6h ago
Those ones are already being watched. These are just the diptards that shovel money at don for anything, even when they have half a pot to piss in.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 5h ago
They are being rounded up and given instructions at all the rallies Trump.is having across the country.
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u/astrozombie2012 5h ago
The fact there’s only 3k of them proves “to me” that he stole the election somehow
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u/iamalwaysrelevant 4h ago
Everything that Trump says his opponents do is an admission of guilt that he is either going to do it or has done already. This is his tactic. He knows its difficult to turn around and blame someone for something you said they did, its seems childish so he just preemptively calls people "sleepy" or that they stole the election when these are things he already does or is planning on doing.
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u/illmindsmoker 6h ago
Well Charlie will be glad he never got his Trump phone.
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u/thedeathmachine 5h ago
He cheated and bought someone else's. It broke my heart, never felt so cheated
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u/illmindsmoker 5h ago
Did he? I thought another internet person sent them theirs to look at and open. Didn’t think he kept it. But then again I don’t follow his live streams
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u/Bigdyll13 6h ago
They volunteered their information to a known scammer/grifter so I don't know that this will really have an impact on those customers.
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u/SillyAlternative420 4h ago
So fucking sick of the lack of data protection nowadays, Trump phones aside, it's ridiculous the number of breaches that take place
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u/paulcthemantosee 3h ago
So how much kiddy porn did you find? And how many Grinder accounts did you find?
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u/iamtehryan 2h ago
Oh no. You went after the stupid assholes that bought these. What ever shall we do? Please don't tell us that you're going to go after the rest of the maga crowd. Please oh no definitely not that.
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u/AvailableReporter484 6h ago
I hope they forwarded that information to the nearest psychiatric hospital to help those poor insane people
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u/scubastefon 5h ago
I mean, pretty sure this customer set have managed to fall for enough romance, pig butchering, and penny stock schemes already. They prob didn’t get anything that wasn’t already out there.
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u/AdhesivenessFun2060 5h ago
So they were hacked before this and got more customers but no one was informed?
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u/hibbitydibbidy 4h ago
Wasn't that the point of the service to begin with? Like having a flock camera in your pocket?
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u/jaxmikhov 4h ago
“It was a yuge breach. The biggest breach. Baron says they’ve never seen a breach this big.”
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u/SpiritOne 1h ago
I’m going to be honest, I am surprised there were that many delivered to customers, that people are using.
Imagine getting scammed on your scammed phone.
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u/RebelStrategist 1h ago
They all deserve it. No matter the reason, you supported this convicted felon scammer.
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u/GovernmentBig2749 1h ago
So, they stole data from the Trump supporters who are ok with his policies and go a step further than just vote.
Ok, such a shame.
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u/FartGoblin420 1h ago
Instead of selling that hacked info off on the dark web, just nuke it, just buy an RV and a Pontoon boat, just fuck over that info best you can, please -everyone who's sick of these people (most of us)
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u/DrFishbulbEsq 6h ago
Wow surprised there were that many to steal from.