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Freedom Mobile discloses data breach exposing customer data
Freedom Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked into its customer account management platform and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers.
- December 03, 2025
- 03:28 PM
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UK carriers to block spoofed phone numbers in fraud crackdown
Under a new partnership with the government aimed at combating fraud, Britain's largest mobile carriers have committed to upgrading their networks to eliminate scammers' ability to spoof phone numbers within a year.
- November 05, 2025
- 11:33 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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AT&T rolls out "Wireless Lock" feature to block SIM swap attacks
AT&T has launched a new security feature called "Wireless Lock" that protects customers from SIM swapping attacks by preventing changes to their account information and the porting of phone numbers while the feature is enabled.
- July 01, 2025
- 04:23 PM
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Mobile carrier Cellcom confirms cyberattack behind extended outages
Wisconsin wireless provider Cellcom has confirmed that a cyberattack is responsible for the widespread service outage and disruptions that began on the evening of May 14, 2025.
- May 20, 2025
- 04:19 PM
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Chinese hackers breach more US telecoms via unpatched Cisco routers
China's Salt Typhoon hackers are still actively targeting telecoms worldwide and have breached more U.S. telecommunications providers via unpatched Cisco IOS XE network devices.
- February 14, 2025
- 07:56 AM
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T-Mobile pays $31.5 million FCC settlement over 4 data breaches
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a $31.5 million settlement with T-Mobile over multiple data breaches that compromised the personal information of millions of U.S. consumers.
- September 30, 2024
- 03:20 PM
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FCC fines carriers $200 million for illegally sharing user location
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers almost $200 million for sharing their customers' real-time location data without their consent.
- April 29, 2024
- 03:41 PM
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FCC orders telecom carriers to report PII data breaches within 30 days
Starting March 13th, telecommunications companies must report data breaches impacting customers' personally identifiable information within 30 days, as required by FCC's updated data breach reporting requirements.
- February 12, 2024
- 04:50 PM
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Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data
Mint Mobile has disclosed a new data breach that exposed the personal information of its customers, including data that can be used to perform SIM swap attacks.
- December 22, 2023
- 08:35 PM
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Ukraine's largest mobile carrier Kyivstar down following cyberattack
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telecommunications service provider serving over 25 million mobile and home internet subscribers, has suffered a cyberattack impacting mobile and data services.
- December 12, 2023
- 10:46 AM
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Microsoft finds severe bugs in Android apps from large mobile providers
Microsoft security researchers have found high severity vulnerabilities in a framework used by Android apps from multiple large international mobile service providers.
- May 27, 2022
- 01:06 PM
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South Africa wants to fight SIM swapping with biometric checks
The independent communications authority of South Africa (ICASA) has submitted a radical proposal to tackle the problem of SIM swapping attacks in the country, suggesting that local service providers should keep biometric data of cellphone number owners.
- March 24, 2022
- 01:50 PM
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FCC wants new data breach reporting rules for telecom carriers
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed more rigorous data breach reporting requirements for telecom carriers in response to breaches that recently hit the telecommunications industry.
- January 13, 2022
- 04:39 PM
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MyRepublic discloses data breach exposing government ID cards
MyRepublic Singapore has disclosed a data breach exposing the personal information of approximately 80,000 mobile subscribers.
- September 10, 2021
- 02:47 PM
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