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Three Mobile, two alleged hackers, one big customer database heist

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Re: Would these Telcos and ISPs be the same ones...

You don't need to compromise a mobile network to send messages from a sender specified number ( eg: "ThreeUK" ).

You just need a company that has API access to an aggregator ( an aggregator is plumbed into the networks themselves and can specify the sender number ).

There are plenty of them.

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