Sprint says hackers breached customer accounts
2019 is not shaping up as a great year for Sprint when it comes to its customer data: after a data breach that compromized Boost Mobile customers information earlier, now, Sprint has admitted that hackers had gained access to customer information such as names, billing, device details, and more via a Samsung web page. The exact number of breached account is not yet known and Sprint says that credit card data and social security information were encrypted and not compromised.
Samsung also came up with a statement saying the following: “We recently detected fraudulent attempts to access Sprint user account information via Samsung.com, using Sprint login credentials that were not obtained from Samsung. We deployed measures to prevent further attempts of this kind on Samsung.com and no Samsung user account information was accessed as part of these attempts.”