In the lawsuit, he said he had been tortured and spied on for being an alleged member of the Islamic State militant group. The Wall Street Journal story also noted that T-Mobile was initially notified of the breach by a cybersecurity company called Unit221B LLC, which said their customer data was being marketed on the dark web.īinns repeated his assertion that the attack was done because he was angry about how he was treated by US law enforcement agencies in recent years.īinns filed a lawsuit against the FBI, CIA and Justice Department in November where he said he was being investigated for various cybercrime, including participation in the Satori botnet conspiracy. While Binns did not explicitly say he worked with others on the attack, he did admit that he needed help in acquiring login credentials for databases inside T-Mobile's systems. He would not confirm if the data he stole has already been sold or if someone else paid him to hack into T-Mobile. Their security is awful," Binns told the Wall Street Journal. "I was panicking because I had access to something big.
By August 4, he had stolen millions of files. From there, it took about one week to gain access to the servers that contained the personal data of millions.
Through Telegram, Binns provided evidence to the Wall Street Journal proving he was behind the T-Mobile attack and told reporters that he originally gained access to T-Mobile's network through an unprotected router in July.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, he had been searching for gaps in T-Mobile's defenses through its internet addresses and gained access to a data center near East Wenatchee, Washington, where he could explore more than 100 of the company's servers. They moved back to Turkey when Binns was 18. His father, who died when he was two, was American, and his mother is Turkish. Binns has now spoken out publicly in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, telling the newspaper he was in fact behind the attack and conducted it from his home in Izmir, Turkey, where he lives with his mother.
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