Ho Mobile, a subsidiary of Vodafone has reported a data breach incident where a part of its database was stolen by hackers. This affected about 2.5 million users, who got their PII and technical data about their SIM card was stolen, which could give rise to SIM swapping attacks. Ho is now offering free SIM cards to affected users.
Data Breach at Vodafone’s Subsidiary
Ho Mobile is an Italian low-cost telecom operator and a subsidiary of Vodafone. It’s reported that since December 22nd last year, a database belonging to Ho Mobile was being sold in a dark web forum for around $50,000 . This was reported by a researcher called Bank Security .
A Threat Actor is selling a Database of the Italian mobile service provider ho. ( https://t.co/N5IYO88bja ) owned by @VodafoneIT ????????. The dump allegedly includes 2,500,000 customers’ PII Data, Phone Numbers & ICCID that can be exploited for SIM swap attacks to empty Bank accounts. pic.twitter.com/yR193Mt3CS — Bank Security (@Bank_Security) December 28, 2020
