AT&T employees bribed with $1M to unlock millions of phones
Aug07
AT&T employees unlocked millions of mobile phones to plant malware and remove the phones from the provider’s network — all for thousands of dollars in bribes. The details were revealed after the US Department of Justice opened a case against Muhammad Fahd, who has been accused of running a fraudulent operation to disable AT&T‘s proprietary software that safeguards phones from being unlocked. The ultimate objective, the court documents reveal, was to sell the illegal software to the public, so that they could switch to a different network of their choice and deprive AT&T of the payments owed as per the…
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