Trump Mobile, President Trump’s eponymous cell phone provider and smartphone maker, is reportedly leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses.
On Tuesday, YouTubers cafezilla and penguin0Those who said they ordered the gold T1 phone from Trump Mobile said they had been alerted by a researcher who found the exposed data online.
“I know this because, unfortunately, I’m one of those customers whose mailing address, email address, you know, everything other than the credit card number is being leaked,” said Coffeezilla, who rose to fame. investigating crypto scams. “Do not order from trumpmobile.com unless you are prepared to have your information leaked. It’s basically that bad.”
The two YouTubers said they ordered the T1 smartphone out of curiosity, not because they support the president and his business efforts. Now, like other Trump Mobile customers, their information has been leaked.
Both said they were alerted to the leak by a source, who shared their personal information to prove they actually had access to it. The investigator told them that they couldn’t locate anyone at Trump Mobile, so the problem hasn’t been fixed yet. “We have all encountered radio silence,” penguinz0 said.
Both YouTubers did not explain how the hackers were able to access the data because they said it was very easy to do so and that the data is still available online.
Trump Mobile did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
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Based on unique IDs in the leak, Coffeezilla said, it appears only 30,000 people ordered the phone. This is a much lower figure than expected. Last year, according to an estimateThere were 590,000 pre-orders, costing $100.
Trump Mobile was announced last year with the promise of offering a phone entirely made in the US. It turns out that according to NBC Newswhose reporters got their hands on 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 edge and others discovered that the phone has sports an American flag with only 11 stripes instead of dozens should have, although the graphic designer may have intended the “TRUMP MOBILE” logo to be the twelfth stripe. Some have also noticed that the phone looks like a two-year-old HTC phone, suggesting it may simply be a rebranded device.
The phone has been plagued with problems since day one. 404 Media, e.g. I tried to order the T1 when it was announced and the order page crashed and charged the wrong amount.
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