Hackers release Trump Mobile data affecting Trump staffers

Last week, ransomware group BYOD released data from 3,615 Trump Mobile customers, including some of Donald Trump’s closest aides.

Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, home addresses and order details for Trump Mobile customers were among the information released on BYOD’s leak site last week, Straight Arrow News (SAN) reported yesterday.

Trump Organization Vice President Eric Brunnett and assistant general counsel Nicholas Hayes were reportedly among those whose data was exposed.

Jason Miller, a longtime Trump advisor who is now a White House staff member, and pro-Trump influencer Bo Loudon are also among the affected, according to cybersecurity reporters at International Cyber Digest (ICD), who confirmed this.

Owned by T1 Mobile, Trump Mobile licenses the Trump name from the Trump Organization. T1 Mobile, in turn, is managed by Liberty Mobile.

Trump Mobile allegedly did not use multi-factor authentication

The attacker, whom International Cyber Digest (ICD) claims to have spoken with, said they gained access by using an infostealer against a Liberty Mobile employee.

Supposedly, multi-factor authentication is not used by either company, and no security team or third-party support is handling the incident.

When the attackers first contacted Trump Mobile, the company responded, “We have no team to handle this,” and stated that anyone who hacks them is a terrorist.

BYOD claimed, “They basically told us to go fuck ourselves.”

Trump Mobile experienced supply problems this year, after customers had to wait over 11 months for pre-ordered phones.

Almost 600,000 customers each paid $100 — a total of nearly $60 million — to pre-order the phones. Why the breach affected only about 3,600 customers rather than the full 600,000 remains unclear.