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WARNING! My iphone was hijacked. They stole my email, my tmobile account online, and my coinbase account,
HOW DO WE STOP or PREVENT THIS?!
My iphone was hijacked Fri Dec 3, 2021. They stole my email, my tmobile account online (yes, this one right here that I am chatting on), and cleaned out my coinbase account. ¿Cómo ocurrió esto? Who is at fault? AT&T Yahoo mail, Tmobile, Coinbase?
The 2 step verification methods didn't work. The emails that said, hey you changed your password is this correct if not call. How does this even help if the crook has your email? I discovered the problem at 2pm when my phone stopped dialing, but the dirty deed was done by 2pm.
Eva_ebc wrote:
jteis wrote:
HOW DO WE STOP or PREVENT THIS?!
My iphone was hijacked Fri Dec 3, 2021. They stole my email, my tmobile account online (yes, this one right here that I am chatting on), and cleaned out my coinbase account. ¿Cómo ocurrió esto? Who is at fault? AT&T Yahoo mail, Tmobile, Coinbase?
The 2 step verification methods didn't work. The emails that said, hey you changed your password is this correct if not call. How does this even help if the crook has your email? I discovered the problem at 2pm when my phone stopped dialing, but the dirty deed was done by 2pm.
magenta10613832 wrote:
This from the Breach last August !
John Binns told the Wall Street Journal he used a publicly-available tool to scan known Internet protocol (IP) addresses that are widely known to be used by T-Mobile, with the scan intended to discover security weaknesses connected to those IP addresses.
He apparently found one at a datacenter in Washington state where he claims an Internet router used by T-Mobile was not properly secured.
Binns told the newspaper his goal was to gain notoriety by “generating noise” about T-Mobile’s lackluster cybersecurity practices. The breach, which was disclosed earlier this month, is one of several involving the theft and leak of T-Mobile’s customer data over the last few years.
Happen to me 3 weeks ago, zero help from T-Mobile except - we will give you a new SIM card for free.
Why there is no class action lawsuit yet?
Class action won't get your money back, did you see the payout for the data breach settlement? $25 unless you live in Cali then it's $100. The lawyers and the person who files the claim gets most of the money. And it's not cheap to file a class because the lawyers who do them don't work pro bono.
jteis wrote:
HOW DO WE STOP or PREVENT THIS?!
My iphone was hijacked Fri Dec 3, 2021. They stole my email, my tmobile account online (yes, this one right here that I am chatting on), and cleaned out my coinbase account. ¿Cómo ocurrió esto? Who is at fault? AT&T Yahoo mail, Tmobile, Coinbase?
The 2 step verification methods didn't work. The emails that said, hey you changed your password is this correct if not call. How does this even help if the crook has your email? I discovered the problem at 2pm when my phone stopped dialing, but the dirty deed was done by 2pm.
magenta10613832 wrote:
This from the Breach last August !
John Binns told the Wall Street Journal he used a publicly-available tool to scan known Internet protocol (IP) addresses that are widely known to be used by T-Mobile, with the scan intended to discover security weaknesses connected to those IP addresses.
He apparently found one at a datacenter in Washington state where he claims an Internet router used by T-Mobile was not properly secured.
Binns told the newspaper his goal was to gain notoriety by “generating noise” about T-Mobile’s lackluster cybersecurity practices. The breach, which was disclosed earlier this month, is one of several involving the theft and leak of T-Mobile’s customer data over the last few years.
Happen to me 3 weeks ago, zero help from T-Mobile except - we will give you a new SIM card for free.
Why there is no class action lawsuit yet?
This from the Breach last August !
John Binns told the Wall Street Journal he used a publicly-available tool to scan known Internet protocol (IP) addresses that are widely known to be used by T-Mobile, with the scan intended to discover security weaknesses connected to those IP addresses.
He apparently found one at a datacenter in Washington state where he claims an Internet router used by T-Mobile was not properly secured.
Binns told the newspaper his goal was to gain notoriety by “generating noise” about T-Mobile’s lackluster cybersecurity practices. The breach, which was disclosed earlier this month, is one of several involving the theft and leak of T-Mobile’s customer data over the last few years.
Same thing happened to me. SIM swap then stole my coinbase account. Also went into Canada. No help from T-mobile at all.
If it happened once, why did you continue to use coinbase?
I probably will never recover my money.
I removed my bank account from coinbase. I did not put any more crypto into coinbase. I reported it to my local police dept. I filed a complaint with coinbase. I filed a complaint with T-Mobile. I am waiting for replies from Coinbase and T-Mobile. I talked with my local police and gave them all my information about the illegal transactions which went to an account in Canada. And gave them the dollar value amount that I lost.
I don't think I will ever use coinbase again. Why should I?
Thank you so much for this thread!
I've been hacked 4 times. Always the same sequence. Email. Tmobile. Coinbase.
I think your explanation of what happened to is what happened t me.
¡Gracias!
Tmobile is aware of this major flaw in their system. They should let ALL customers know about this vulnerability. They have known since about August 2021. I had no idea about it. My coinbase was cleaned out on Dec. 3, 2021.
CNET printed an article about it on Aug, 22, 2021. Here is the link to the article.
This exact thing happened to me two days ago. Yahoo then TMobile account turning off my phone then Coinbase. This is the first info I have seen on the sim card thing. I feel like some awareness needs to be brought to this.
my comment was directed at the person that just tried to hijack your thread and turn it into something about their problem instead..
fireguy_6364 wrote:
RiotPenguin wrote:
tmo_mike_c wrote:
oh boy, that's terrible. For Coinbase and your email, you'll need to follow up with their support teams to figure out how it was accessed and reset your account. For you T-Mobile account, you can report unauthorized access directly to our Tech Care team and we can escalate it to the right folks on our side. Sorry this happened, but please make sure to get in touch with our team so we can address your T-Mobile account.
Hey Mike, why hasn’t T-Mobile commented publicly about this EBB fiasco?
asking him why higher upper management hasnt publicly commented on something makes about as much sense as someone trying to hijack someone elses thread that is trying to get a problem figured out that has ZERO to do with your EBB fiasco...
I don't understand this. I guess I am naive. I phoned Tmobile again today. They put a SIM block, and Account Takeover Protection by Tmobile on my phone. I already contacted Coinbase who gave me the activity reports. I have reset all my passwords and on my email. And I have reported this crime to my local police department. So far, no one can explain how it happened. I've done all that I can do for now, I suppose. I wonder if there are any tech savvy guys in the public that can explain how the deed was done?
