Even more so, Simon said that the defense helped to protect customers' information and prevent service disruptions by stopping the attack from progressing further. Simon also said that the hackers' identities are still unknown. "Bad actors had no access to sensitive customer data (including calls, voicemails, or texts).”
Yet, even though they do not know whether or not the hacker’s identity, they have similar “traits” to the hackers from Salt Typhoon, but “we don't know it's them.".
Simone also wrote that T-Mobile also cut the network connection to the providers as they believed it was compromised. However, the provider’s name was kept secret. Simon also said that he represented the telecommunication platform in a meeting last week in order to discuss "large-scale, sophisticated national threats."
And, as a response this month FBI and the Cybersecurity&Infrastructure Security Agency stated that theory is looking into this situation as it can be a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign”.
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