What measures are in place to prevent Public mobile from being hacked?

[kujo]

With another large attack on T-Mobile in which access was gained to multiple resources and 30k source codes for T-Mobile application were downloaded. What assurance do Public mobile costumers have that this will not happen to our beloved mobile provider.

Learn more about T-Mobiles latest hack here:

https://youtu.be/6oHiZ-YHa5M

T-Mobile, the Telecom company, announced on Friday that the LAPSUS$ extortion group had accessed its networks. After seeing a record of the personal chat conversations between individuals of the cybercriminals group, popular journalist and investigator Brian Krebs initially suspected that the LAPSUS$ group had hacked T-Mobile.

The LAPSUS$ gang gained access to T-network Mobile many times in March, according to the records, and the hackers took source code for several company projects.

Initial VPN credentials were allegedly obtained from illegal websites such as Russian Market in order to get access to T-Mobile employees' accounts, enabling the malicious actors to perform SIM switching assaults at will.

Despite screenshots revealed in the chats showing the gang getting access to the private "Atlas" system, as well as Bitbucket and Slack accounts, the telecom operator claims no consumer or government data was compromised.

[gpixel]

Telus and Koodo have already been breached and it leaked credentials. PM was also affected because it is linked to Koodo

[JL9]

May work in our favour that hackers wouldn't be too interested in a tier 3 provider, in terms of a financial motivation or motivation to bring down "the man" they would probably focus on the bigger fish like T-Mobile, Rogers, Bell Telus flagship brands.

[hTideGnow]

HI @kujo If even T-Mobile got hacked, I don't see how Telus could be any safer.  And I think PM is even less protected.  Less is for less protection

[esjliv]

@kujo  - Hope for the best is my train of thought!! And, that Telus is doing their due diligence with regards to customer's safety.

Some help articles here towards better fraud practices was a good change:

https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/bc/get-help/articles/sim-swap-fraud

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Announcements/SIM-Swap-Fraud/m-p/650969

[darlicious]

@kujo 

It's unlikely that telus would reveal how they protect their systems from illegal hacking.

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