Trump Mobile, the wireless service founded by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, has been hacked again. A different group breached the carrier just a month after the previous incident, exposing the personal information of 3,615 customers. Trump Mobile had already drawn criticism after its in-house T1 smartphone, promoted as American-made, turned out to have been manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC, and after the company failed for more than a year to ship the device to customers who had placed preorders.
Forbes reported on the 6th that the latest breach also exposed the personal information of senior Trump Organization executives, including Eric Brunet, the group’s vice president and chief information officer. The incident has yet to be contained. A separate hacking group claimed last month that it had stolen data on 4,000 Trump Mobile users.
According to Straight Arrow News, the intrusion was carried out by BYOD, a recently formed hacking group. The group posted the stolen data on a dark web site last week along with a statement explaining how it gained access. The statement appears to contain internal Trump Mobile communications.
BYOD claimed that Trump Mobile had been notified of the intrusion, and that Trump Mobile itself acknowledged it had no team in place to respond to the hack. Addressing dark web users, the group wrote that they should “view the data of all 3,615 customers,” adding, “neither we nor they can stop you.”
BYOD told U.S. technology outlet PCMag that it had installed a remote access trojan on a device belonging to an employee of Liberty Mobile, the operator that actually runs Trump Mobile, and took remote control of the computer. PCMag identified three customers on the leaked list who confirmed they had done business with Trump Mobile. One of them acknowledged that a leaked file accurately recorded the cancellation of a 30-day unlimited talk, text and data plan.
Security concerns are not new. Early this year, the YouTubers Coffeezilla and Cr1TiKaL pointed to an exploitable software flaw on the Trump Mobile website, saying it could be used to expose customer data. Trump Mobile later said it had fixed the flaw, but observers have suggested BYOD may have broken in through the same vulnerability.
On its website, Trump Mobile markets a $47.45 monthly plan that includes nationwide coverage, roadside assistance and telehealth services, alongside the T1, a gold Android smartphone priced at $750. The T1 was launched as the “Trump Phone” in June last year and drew about $59 million in deposits from 590,000 people, but not a single unit was delivered over the following year. Trump Mobile had also promoted the T1 as assembled in the United States, and removed the “Made in America” label from its website after the device was revealed to be Taiwanese-made.
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