Latest Mobile Carrier news

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.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- 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.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- 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.
- Lawrence Abrams
- 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.
- Bill Toulas
- 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.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- 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.
- Bill Toulas
- 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.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- 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.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 10, 2021
- 02:47 PM
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