According to US tech conglomerate Google, some personal data of customers using the Google Fi service may have been stolen by hackers in a recent cyber attack. This was reported by The Verge, an American technology news website, which reported earlier this month that the cyberattack was likely in connection with the T-Mobile data breach.
in email sent by Google Customers using Google Fi were notified that the primary network provider of the cell network had become aware of suspicious activity in systems containing Google Fi customer data. Hackers may have gained access to some user data through compromised systems including phone numbers, SIM cards. Serial number, account status and mobile service plans information according to Google.
The company does not specifically identify T-Mobile as its major service provider in the email, despite the fact that Google Fi is an MVNO that it primarily connects to. we Cellular and T-Mobile networks.
Names, email addresses, credit card information, government IDs, passwords or PIN numbers were among the personal information that was not stored in the system.
Google reassured customers that there was no need for Fi users to take any further action, and that there had been no unauthorized access to Google’s own systems or any systems directly supervised by Google.
According to The Verge, both the timing of the announcement and Google Fi’s relationship with T-Mobile suggest that the breach is directly linked to the cyberattack earlier this month that affected 37 million T-Mobile customers. This was the eighth T-Mobile hack since 2018.
Earlier, US wireless carrier T-Mobile said it was investigating a data breach that may have exposed 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts, and indicated significant costs related to the incident.
It is the second major cyberattack in less than two years and comes months after the carrier agreed to upgrade its data protections in order to settle a lawsuit related to the 2021 incident, in which information on an estimated 76.6 million people was compromised. The deal was done.
The company identified the malicious activity on January 5 and contained it within a day, it said, adding that no sensitive data such as financial information was exposed.
However, T-Mobile said that basic customer data — such as name, billing address, email and phone number — was breached and that it had begun notifying affected customers. The company has over 110 million customers.
* with agency inputs
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