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.
  • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    11 months ago

    Fuckin great. I ran out of hotspot like a month ago while working remotely on a road trip. I needed hotspot right then /there, and my phone is on a family plan. Increasing my hotspot data meant I had to do it for the whole family plan and pay almost double the amount on the monthly bill. I thought I outsmarted the system by getting a mint mobile 3 month subscription for like $40 to just use for that trip… Aaaaaand my data’s been breached… Cool…

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    When the merger was first announced, my friend sent me a link to the Ryan Reynolds video of the announcement. I sent back, “cute vid. I sense a breach in our future lol”

    I guess that ‘lol’ wasn’t necessary…

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    I got off mint last month so at the very least they cant port my number off when the number is no longer with them anymore.

  • martinb@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    I thought they meant Linux Mint, the Debian derivative. Very confused until I read the comments… perhaps I should read the article 😳

  • Extras@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Fuck but I do have totp already enabled should I just change my password?

    Edit: my paranoia got to me I’m gonna just reset my totp seeds and change my password. Some of the info was fake so that’ll protect me a bit. Guess that’s the best you can do for now

    Edit 2: they made it a pain in the ass to change your password apparently now they favor only 20 characters max (rip my 35 character password). A nice warning on their website would’ve been really helpful

    • Unaware7013@kbin.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      Edit 2: they made it a pain in the ass to change your password apparently now they favor only 20 characters max (rip my 35 character password).

      That just screams they’re not storing passwords properly. If you’re salt+hashing your passwords, they could throw Hamlet into the password field and the only limit is how big the text entry field can be. The output is a fixed length string, so I put length should be immaterial.

    • random65837@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      TMO is breached yearly, Mint customers and TMO customers aren’t the same thing, Mint is TMO’s customer, not the individuals. Not the same databases. In the end, Mint doesn’t have half the data on it’s customers that actual TMO does on theirs.