by Edwin Bentley
The telecoms industry is not immune to cyber security breaches. It is more susceptible than ever. A dependence on telecommunications products and services due to remote working during the pandemic, and more has produced an increasingly connected world that significantly relies on these telco service providers. And where there is dependence, there are threats to disrupt it.
In August 2021, a security breach hit T-Mobile and impacted more than
40 million current, former, and prospective customers. A recently discovered cyber incident at a critical supplier to Vodafone also had "scope to impact the entire telecoms industry."