DOJ unseals charges against a man who allegedly paid AT&T 'insiders' more than a million dollars over five years to unlock more than two million cell phones 'fraudulently,' allowing buyers to avoid using the company as a provider.
The Department of Justice has unsealed charges against a man who allegedly paid AT&T"insiders" more than a million dollars over five years to unlock more than two million cell phones"fraudulently," allowing buyers to avoid using the company as a provider.
DOJ says the scheme cost the company millions and resulted in millions of phones being removed from AT&T service. A phone is usually locked to a carrier, like AT&T, according to Apple, and unlocking a phone means disconnecting or"unlocking" from one carrier, and then the phone can be used by anyone.
Much like the malware, the credentials used to unlock phones belonged to actual AT&T employees, DOJ says. "Fahd ... began programming hardware devices designed to facilitate unauthorized access to AT&T's internal protected network for the purpose of processing authorized unlock requests," the indictment reads.
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