Mobilelink USA 2025 Data Breach
Telecommunications / Wireless Retail Dealer / Consumer / USA
Mobilelink USA 2025 Data Breach via DragonForce Ransomware
Largest US dealer of Cricket Wireless prepaid phones and service.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
96/100
Lower riskHigher risk
High and current: recent, valuable data circulating on the dark web now.
Data Sensitivity i
ElevatedExposed data raises the risk of fraud, targeting, and impersonation. Proactive steps are warranted.
2.7M rowsRecords
2025Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
SSNSocial Security Number
FinancialFinancial Account (bank/card)
Breach Summary
On December 2, 2025, DragonForce claimed a ransomware attack on Mobilelink USA, alleging roughly 5.04 TB stolen. The exposed data may include personally identifiable and financial data of millions of Cricket Wireless customers across 21+ states, including names, Social Security numbers and financial-account details.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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2.7M rows records analyzed
About Mobilelink USA
Mobilelink USA is the largest authorized dealer of Cricket Wireless prepaid phones and service in the US, operating retail stores across more than 20 states.
Why They Hold Your Data
A wireless retail dealer holds customer identity and contact data, and for account setup and financing, Social Security numbers and financial/payment details of prepaid-wireless customers.
Recent Developments
The DragonForce ransomware group claimed Mobilelink USA in December 2025, alleging exfiltration of about 5.04 TB of data.
Data Points Exposed
3 verified field types
Financial Account (bank/card) High
Full Name
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
As Cricket's largest dealer, the breach potentially exposed prepaid-wireless customers across many states to identity and financial fraud, with notification and litigation following.
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A telecom breach: subscriber and device data supports SIM-swap, account takeover and location inference. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Freeze credit at all three bureaus and monitor for new-account and tax-refund fraud.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: DragonForceConfidence: High
Motivation: Financial extortion, brand growth
A significant ransomware operation by 2025. Reporting describes a shift toward a RaaS-style model, use of leaked ransomware codebases, and high-profile attacks against UK retailers including M&S, Harrods, and Co-op.
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