![]() ![]() said a cyberattack earlier this month that exposed millions of customer records was carried out using specialized tools to gain entry to the. In 2015, hackers stole personal information belonging to about 15 million T-Mobile wireless customers and potential customers in the US, which they obtained from the credit reporting agency Experian. August 27, 2021, 7:00 AM PDT T-Mobile US Inc. T-Mobile US Inc is supporting a plaintiffs' bid to centralize in one federal district court almost 30 lawsuits filed by customers over a recent massive data breach, but suggested a different venue. That announcement came after other publicly reported breaches at T-Mobile in 2021, 2020, 20. The telecom giant announced in August 2021 that. T-Mobile has previously disclosed a number of data breaches over the years, including in November 2019 and August 2018, both of which involved unauthorized access to customer information. T-Mobile said earlier this year that it suffered a data breach in November that impacted 37 million current customers. Since 2021, T-Mobile has been reeling from a massive data breach affecting the personal information of more than 76 million customers. T-Mobile, which is based in Bellevue, Washington, became one of the country’s largest cellphone service carriers, along with AT&T and Verizon, after buying rival Sprint. The company has offered its customers two years of free identity protection services to ensure the protection of their personal information.Īccording to the statement, the company is coordinating with law enforcement agencies as they continue the investigation. The Guardian has reached out to T-Mobile for further clarification on whether this is confirmed. In Monday’s statement, the company said that they are “confident” the point of entry for the hacking has been shut down. The company, which crossed 100 million users in November, shared the results of an investigation they announced just two days earlier when they confirmed claims that their data had been “illegally accessed”. These files did not include any financial information or social security of the users. Over the past week, T-Mobile confirmed that it was the subject of a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of at least 50 million people. Some information, which the company did not specify, was also exposed from the billing fees of inactive prepaid accounts. Other information that has been recorded stolen include customers’ first and last names, date of birth and driver’s license information belonging to current and former postpaid customers. No Metro by T-Mobile, formerly Sprint prepaid, or Boost customers had their names or pins exposed. The company said that it proactively reset all of the pins on those accounts. T-Mobile also confirmed that approximately 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account pins were exposed.
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