"Data of 40 Million Plus Exposed in Latest T-Mobile Breach"

Recently it was discovered that the names, Social Security numbers, and information from driver’s licenses or other identification of just over 40 million people who applied for T-Mobile credit were exposed in a recent data breach.  The company stated that the same data for about 7.8 million current T-Mobile customers who pay monthly for phone service also appears to be compromised.  T-Mobile noted that no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information from the nearly 50 million records and accounts were compromised.  T-Mobile has previously disclosed a number of data breaches over the years, most recently in January and before that in Nov. 2019 and Aug. 2018, all of which involved unauthorized access to customer information.  It also disclosed a breach affecting its own employees’ email accounts in 2020.  And in 2015, hackers stole personal information belonging to about 15 million T-Mobile wireless customers and potential customers in the U.S., which they obtained from credit reporting agency Experian.

The Daily Gazette reports: "Data of 40 Million Plus Exposed in Latest T-Mobile Breach"