"T-Mobile Investigates Potentially Massive Breach of Consumer Data"

T-Mobile is investigating claims by a hacker that they have put sensitive information about more than 100 million of its customers up for sale after breaching its servers.  The data set includes names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and driver's license information.  The hackers are asking for six bitcoin, which is roughly the equivalent to $278,781 as of Monday morning, in exchange for 30 million Social Security numbers and driver's licenses from the data set.  A T-Mobile spokesperson stated, "we are aware of claims made in an underground forum and have been actively investigating their validity, and we do not have any additional information to share at this time." The hacker selling the set told Motherboard that it retrieved the data from multiple T-Mobile servers that the company has since regained control over. Motherboard confirmed that samples of the data matched T-Mobile customers.  The breach would be the fifth the company has suffered in four years. 

CyberScoop reports: "T-Mobile Investigates Potentially Massive Breach of Consumer Data"