The hacking group known as Lapsus$ has been linked to cyber attacks on Microsoft, Nvidia, and Samsung, among others, before core members of the group were said to have been arrested. Since then new text messages claimed to be from the hacking groups members suggest telecom company, T-Mobile, was also targeted and source code successfully stolen by the group. However, also that the FBI got involved and locked the group out of its own rented servers before they could do anything with the data.
Security blog KrebsOnSecurity, written by journalist Brian Krebs, says it has received logs of the Telegram discussions between the core members of Lapsus$, in which the hack of T-Mobile and the subsequent seizure are mentioned.
«FFS, THAT AWS HAD TMO SRC [T-Mobile source code] code!,» a member of the group, known as White, is said to have mentioned in the aftermath of the seizure.
White was shortly thereafter arrested by City of London police, and is reported to be a 16-year-old from Oxford, UK. Other UK citizens, aged 15–21, were also arrested and alleged to be in connection with the group.
Lapsus$ is said to have preferred uploading stolen data to the cloud and rented servers to lower the risk of police raids on the members' homes from finding any of the stolen information. That plan didn't quite work out, however, as the remote content was scooped up by the FBI.
The hacking group is supposed to have tried to once again breach T-Mobile's systems and download the stolen data, however, found they were unable to regain access using the access tokens. These tokens were reportedly purchased online from the online equivalent of a man in a back alley opening a large trench coat, but the system may automatically revoke access to them when
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