Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses (techcrunch.com) 66
Trump Mobile confirmed that a third-party platform exposed customers' personal data to the open internet. The data included names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order IDs. TechCrunch reports: Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told TechCrunch that the company is investigating the exposure and has not found evidence that content or financial information spilled online. The company said there was no breach of Trump Mobile's network, systems, or infrastructure. Walker said that the exposure was linked to a third-party platform provider that supports "certain Trump Mobile operations." He did not name the provider.
[...] On Wednesday, two YouTubers who ordered Trump Mobile's phone said a researcher alerted them that their personal information was exposed online. The YouTubers Coffeezilla and penguinz0 said they tried to alert Trump Mobile of the exposure after the researcher also tried but to no avail. Walker said Trump Mobile is evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data. Further reading: Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
[...] On Wednesday, two YouTubers who ordered Trump Mobile's phone said a researcher alerted them that their personal information was exposed online. The YouTubers Coffeezilla and penguinz0 said they tried to alert Trump Mobile of the exposure after the researcher also tried but to no avail. Walker said Trump Mobile is evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data. Further reading: Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
How awful (Score:5, Funny)
Why would Obama do something like this?
Humiliation fetishists (Score:5, Insightful)
You've had a decade to learn that everything Piggy touches turns to shit, that he cares about other people in the same way I care about food on my plate, that the only constant is his greed and fuck you.
I was willing to believe some of the slower, oblivious or brainwashed folks were suckers for a while; I probably persisted in that for too long because that includes some family members.
But anyone still licking Piggy's asshole in 2026 deserves every humiliation they get.
I think I lost sympathy at least 15 years ago (Score:5, Insightful)
Their reckless political choices and their obsession with culture War bullshit combined with the fact that most of them are boomers and older Gen x that receive shitloads of socialism from the New deal and Great society so they are all in on I got mine fuck you means that they have been able to indulge their worst impulses and get away with it pretty much their entire lives.
For the longest time I thought that they'd get away with it and that they would die of old age before the shit hit the fan and a lot of them have but Trump is accelerating things so fast and AI bullshit is wrecking everything else that I don't think these morons are going to escape. For one thing Elon Musk is coming for their 401ks and what's left of the pensions.
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But these fuckers are still dragging me and my family down with them.
Welcome to democracy.
We don't have a democracy (Score:3)
Last election there were millions of coordinated illegal challenges to voter signatures and registrations done at a county level. This prevented millions of Americans from voting. Little old ladies and little men going through lists of voters and preventing them from voting with the full knowledge that while you can answer a challenge to your signature or registration you have to drag your ass down to
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I'm with you right up to the casually applied ageism. We're weakest when divided and the other side are masters of cultivating and manipulating bigotry to their own ends. Blaming it all on the Boomers helps Trump by deflecting anger and actions away from the real target and it spreads hate and dissension between his opponents.
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Except most of the world didn't get a vote.
Re:Humiliation fetishists (Score:5, Insightful)
All these people are on a list of designated marks now. There's a whole scam ecosystem bubbling under the Redhat movement, feeding on itself. The stuff you read about in the news isn't even the half of it.
There's an army of absolutely inspired finessers the guy attracts. There's a whole community - millions - of concentrated stupids for them to feed on. They're turning it into a conveyor belt like the religious crazies do, especially the Islamist terror groups with their online recruiting. Rope em in, squeeze em for everything.
The ones I've seen with my own eyes are concentrated on scamming, but no doubt some of them are going in a more militant direction. I'm expecting attacks before long, big ones, more than the handful of people killed at the mosque this week. Particularly if the Republicans lose an election.
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There's a whole scam ecosystem bubbling under the Redhat movement
Linux?
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All these people are on a list of designated marks now. There's a whole scam ecosystem bubbling under the Redhat movement, feeding on itself.
I switched to Ubuntu, but I know Redhat pushes their patches upstream like crazy.
Do I need to worry as well?
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> There's a whole scam ecosystem bubbling under the Redhat movement
Leave Linux distros out of this.
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"All these people are on a list of designated marks now."
To be fair, they were already designated marks before this. It's just that now they are available to a wider ecosystem of cons.
Re: How awful [unless you want to sell a bridge] (Score:2)
It is funny how often I get a personal message from a beautiful busty blonde a few seconds after my comment. She recognizes my intelligence and informs me of a secret investment that is going to return big profits if I sign up. It is a maga exclusive.
Poor sods...
Re: How awful (Score:2)
I bet he is in tears every evening. Poor snowflake...
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Well, he was trying to download his birth certificate, of course!
flight from competency (Score:1)
Trump Mobile... (Score:2)
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That's strange. When I hear "Trump Mobile" I think of something completely different [parents.com].
=Smidge=
Shocking (Score:5, Insightful)
You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Water is wet, and goes down-hill. Trump founded a business riddled with incompetence.
Life's riddled with invariants like these.
Re:Shocking (Score:5, Informative)
There was no way to know it was a grift. Unless of course you saw every other obvious grift he had run on his followers for years before.
How many notifications, exactly? (Score:2)
The only news here is that there are trump mobile customers
Re:How many notifications, exactly? (Score:5, Informative)
The only news here is that there are trump mobile customers
More pointedly, the leak revealed that there are only about 30,000 orders from the 600,000 preorders previously claimed. Doesn't necessarily mean they were lying, but that would be only a 5% conversion/purchase rate. Maybe die-hard Trump fans actually got tired of waiting or maybe it was all smoke and mirrors - hmm....
Trump Mobile has exposed customers' personal data... [engadget.com]:
Truth Social once crowed about having nearly 600,000 preorders. However, the aforementioned leak suggests that only 30,000 people actually turned a preorder into an actual order.
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...and yet still better than the Cybertruck conversion rate, a vehicle that plenty here claimed would be the greatest thing ever. Not sure which is worse, but then Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley.
Re:How many notifications, exactly? (Score:4, Funny)
...and yet still better than the Cybertruck conversion rate, a vehicle that plenty here claimed would be the greatest thing ever. Not sure which is worse, but then Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley.
In recent there's a sucker born every minute Cybertruck news... Cybertruck plunged into lake for 'Wade Mode' test, driver arrested [usatoday.com]
"The driver stated he intentionally drove into the lake to use the Cybertruck’s 'Wade Mode' feature," police said, adding the vehicle "became disabled and took on water."
While the driver and passengers "abandoned the vehicle," according to police, Grapevine firefighters removed the truck from the lake.
The driver was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle in a closed section of the park and lake, as well as multiple violations of water safety equipment regulations.
He-he :-)
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I would expect nothing less from a Texan named Jimmy Jack McDaniels.
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The Cybertruck was delayed for years and the price (initial) was two to two and a half times what was discussed when Tesla started taking reservations.
The Trump Phone was delayed, but AFAIK the price didn't creep up.
Like you, not sure which was worse.
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More pointedly, the leak revealed that there are only about 30,000 orders from the 600,000 preorders previously claimed. Doesn't necessarily mean they were lying, but that would be only a 5% conversion/purchase rate.
There are Pre-Orders, then there are Actual Orders, then there are the number of Orders that were leaked by the third-party (Leaked Orders)
Pre-orders > Actual Orders > Leaked Orders
There is no reason to assume that every Actual Order was leaked by the third-party. - it might be, but the report doesn't support that conclusion.
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This isn't news. America is full of stupid gullible idiots. I mean Trump managed to convince enough of them to vote for him, of course a portion of them will buy his stupid overpriced outdated bottom tier phone.
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Honestly (Score:3)
If you bought into that, you kinda deserve it.
Re: Honestly (Score:2)
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You think SuperKendall bought one? I doubt it, but maybe his dad did for him.
"Hopefully they take notice when his incompetence becomes relevant to their lives."
His personal enrichment is their lives.
Re: Honestly (Score:5, Insightful)
They won't take notice. They cannot believe the incompetence because that would mean denying the last 5 (at least) years of their beliefs. And all their Bunko Buddies would disown them if they uttered a word against el Bunko. It is their reward system and they are quite happy with it.
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They'll see it as a windfall, because now they can apply for some of that $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund.
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They have taken notice and they can't believe the legacy corruption from the Biden administration lead to this. Fortunately their King Orange Jesus will fix it for them and hold those corrupt dems accountable!
Re: Stop contradicting yourself! (Score:5, Informative)
There is no contradiction. Trump Mobile hired a cheap third party incapable of doing the work properly and failed to ensure that the work was adequate. That does not absolve them of blame, that places the blame squarely on Trump Mobile.
Re: Stop contradicting yourself! (Score:4, Insightful)
Plus you know he stiffed them on payment.
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And they wouldn't have taken the contract if they thought they wouldn't get stiffed on payment. And that says something about their level of intelligence or due diligence, at the very least.
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That does not absolve them of blame...
Don't you worry. The justice system, executive orders, and everybody necessary in congress will do that part.
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Trump is all powerful yet he’s unable to deliver a simple cell phone on schedule. Quite the paradox.
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Nah, you're just playing chequers while Trump the genius is playing 27 dimensional chess which you couldn't possibly understand. When you use Lorentz conversion formulas to map dimensions 23 through 26 into the standard cartesian dimensional system you'll find out it was delivered ahead of schedule. And when you do a bit of highschool level matrix math to unfold the 15th dimension you'll find it was delivered under budget too and that you actually make money by buying this phone.
In future news ... (Score:2)
third-party platform exposed [Trump Mobile] customers' personal data to the open internet.
Modeling off his $10B IRS tax return leak suit, Trump sues that third party for $100 Billion. /s
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Search /. for "exposed customer's" and see how many of those articles BeauHD has posted. Then look at how very, very differently the headlines are written in comparison to this one. Even when the relevant company is directly at fault.
Looking at the slashdot headline: "Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses" I imagine I see the original techcrunch headline: "Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses" shortened to fit slashdots 54 character headline limit.
What did you treat yourself to?
Re:When I was a kid... (Score:4, Insightful)
But the phone book did not list one's political affiliation.
Re:When I was a kid... (Score:5, Insightful)
When I was a kid, we called that a Phone Book [merriam-webster.com], now it's "Exposing Customer Data"? OK, whatever.
The phone book never identified that you made fucking stupid purchasing decisions. I'm happy to give people my phone number and my address, but I'd probably die of shame if anyone caught me with a Trump phone.
Feature, not a bug (Score:2)
This is a great new feature - what MAGA citizen does not want the government to have his information? Don't you trust them?
Will it beat Fire Phone? (Score:2)
Finally, Amazon Fire Phone won't be the worst one. It never made any money and was pulled out after releasing only one model.
Wat! What? (Score:2)
Someone ordered a Trump phone delivered to something other than a dead drop?
Re: Phonebook? (Score:3)
It is creepy as hell how quickly you freaks coalesce around you fallacious talking points.
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I would ask the time traveler which century he came from, and where his craft had landed.
Hear me out on this one, Louie... (Score:4, Interesting)
This scam is brilliant. Many people are saying it's the most brilliant scam they've ever seen.
See, we get the marks to buy a cheap phone at a huge profit because it's made of gold-colored plastic and has our branding.
When they're buying the phones, we get all their personal info. The marks are glad to give it to us.
Now, here's the kicker. We turn around and "accidentally" make the data available on the internet long enough for my friend's cousin Yakov to download it.
From there, it's all free money when we sell the data on the black market and open accounts in their names.
We're insulated from any problems because we can point fingers at the shell companies we've created.
Never give a sucker an even break.
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Honestly, I don't know if you've been watching too many Penelope Pitstop cartoons or too much CSPAN. It's getting hard to tell the difference.