Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information
Cellphone providers and smartphone makers bearing President Trump’s name are leaking Trump Mobile customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, according to reports.
On Tuesday, YouTubers Coffeezilla and Penguinz0 both said they ordered gold-coloured T1 phones from Trump Mobile after being alerted by a researcher who found the exposed data online.
“I know the situation is this because, sadly, I’m one of those customers whose mail address, email address, you know, everything short of a credit card number is being leaked,” said Coffeezilla, who has risen to fame. Investigating crypto scams. “Don’t order on trumpmobile.com unless you’re willing to have your information leaked. It’s basically that bad.”
Both YouTubers said they ordered the T1 smartphone out of curiosity, not because they support the president and his business endeavours. Now, like other Trump Mobile customers, hackers have also leaked their information.
Both said they were alerted to the leak by a source who shared their personal information to prove they had access to it. The researcher told them that they haven’t been able to get ahold of anyone on Trump Mobile, so the problem hasn’t been fixed yet. Penguinz0 said, “We’ve all suffered through radio silence.”
Neither YouTuber explained how hackers could access the data, as they said it was effortless to do, and the data is still available online.
Trump Mobile did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
CoffeeZilla said that, based on the unique ID in the leak, it appears that only 30,000 people had ordered the phone. This figure is a much lower number than expected. last year, according to an estimate There were 590,000 pre-orders with a cost of $100.
The Trump Mobile was announced last year, promising to deliver a completely made-in-USA phone. As it turns out, according to NBC News, whose journalists received the device about nine months after it was delivered, marketing materials now say the phone was “designed with American values in mind” and “shaped by American innovation”.
The Verge and others found that the phone sports An American flag that has only 11 stripes instead of dozens This should be so, although it is possible that the graphic designer intended the “Trump Mobile” logo to be the twelfth strip. some have also noted. The phone looks similar to a two-year-old HTC phone, which suggests it may be a rebranded device.
Problems have surrounded the phone since day one. For example, 404 Media tried to order the T1 when it was announced And the order page failed and the wrong amount was charged.
