Hackers May Have Had Access to Billions of Texts for Years, Global Telecom Company Admits

guest · Oct 4, 2021

Hackers May Have Had Access to Billions of Texts for Years, Global Telecom Company Admits
October 4, 2021
https://www.newsweek.com/hackers-ma...s-years-global-telecom-company-admits-1635376

A global telecommunications company has admitted that hackers may have had access to billions of text messages from potentially millions of cellphone users for years.

Syniverse, which is part of the infrastructure used by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone among others, revealed that an unknown "individual or organization gained unauthorized access to databases within its network on several occasions," in a September 27 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The company estimates that the newly disclosed hack affected approximately 235 of its customers and potentially millions of other phone users as early as May 2016.
The filing notes the company was not aware of the unauthorized access until May of this year, meaning hackers could access information for a period of five years.

Syniverse said all affected customers have been notified and had their credentials reset or inactivated.
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While the scope of the hack remains unclear, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon warned Vice's Motherboard that the hack could be "espionage gold."

"The information flowing through Syniverse's systems is espionage gold," Wyden said.

"That this breach went undiscovered for five years raises serious questions about Syniverse's cybersecurity practices. The FCC needs to get to the bottom of what happened, determine whether Syniverse's cybersecurity practices were negligent, identify whether Syniverse's competitors have experienced similar breaches, and then set mandatory cybersecurity standards for this industry."
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Rasheed187 · Oct 10, 2021

OK so does this mean that 2FA based on SMS was also vulnerable to this, that's the question.

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