10 mobile phone networks around the world were breached by hackers in a massive attack that was made to steal the data stored in their servers from ordinary users. We are talking about recordings of the calls made by the customers of the operators that own the respective mobile phone networks, the hackers managing to compromise the infrastructure of the 10 operators without any problems before everything was discovered.
It seems that this huge hack was done to retrieve data about at least 20 people who were targeted by the hackers, the attack having the name "Operation Softcell", according to some researchers in computer security. It seems that a state ordered its own hackers, or mercenaries, to attack those 10 mobile phone networks, but it is not known who the 20 targeted people are, but they are more than likely very important.
10 Telephone Networks BREAKED by Hackers! Here's what they STOLE!
The hack was extremely dangerous because the hackers had access to completely stop the mobile phone services of the operators, but they preferred to spy, and nothing more. Based on the collected data, I can see who those people called, who called them, but also where they made the phone calls, geolocation being extremely important for monitoring the people the hackers were interested in.
"Security researchers say they have uncovered a massive espionage campaign involving the theft of call records from hacked cell network providers to conduct targeted surveillance on individuals of interest. The hackers have systematically broken into more than 10 cell networks around the world to date over the past seven years to obtain massive amounts of call records — including times and dates of calls, and their cell-based locations — on at least 20 individuals. "
It seems that the networks of mobile phone operators were accessed by hackers for 7 years without any employees of the companies knowing what was actually happening in their servers. The hackers still have functional servers through which they gained access to those mobile phone networks, and attacks are still being made against some of them, and others that are still unknown, the exploitation methods being very complex.
The cyber security researchers who received the news about these attacks say that it is very possible that the Chinese government is behind them, but they do not say which networks were attacked, only that they were not from the US.
