A former cellphone store owner made an estimated $25M by unlocking T-Mobile phones using stolen credentials. He now faces a possible prison sentence of up to 165 years … The Department of Justice said ...

Argishti Khudaverdyan, the former owner of a T-Mobile retail store, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a $25 million scheme where he unlocked and unblocked cellphones by hacking into T-Mobile's ...

For years, he reportedly used several tactics to acquire the T-Mobile employee credentials needed to unlock phones, including phishing, social engineering, and even getting the carrier’s IT department ...

Man Hacked T-Mobile Employees to Unlock Cell Phones, Rake in $25 Million Argishti Khudaverdyan was found guilty of various offenses after he stole login credentials from more than 50 different ...

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Unless the purchase of the phone was financed through the carrier it shouldn't be locked period and if it is financed it should be unlocked as soon as the final payment is made no questions asked. BS ...

Makes sense to me... I mean, if you get that brand new $1k iPhone for $0-out-of-pocket then 2-months later bail to carrier "x" who covers that loss? I don't want to, and if phones are locked there's ...

T-Mobile has written to the FCC warning that the proposed 60-day unlocking rule could severely hamper the subsidies it offers to consumers. The carrier pointed out that subsidies for its prepaid ...

What just happened? T-Mobile has expressed strong reservations about the FCC's proposed rule that would require carriers to unlock users' phones within 60 days of activation. In a filing with the ...

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