T-Mobile Data Breach Affects 37 Million CustomersThe company has experienced eight reported data breaches since 2018.
T-Mobileannounced on Thursday that its network experienced adata breachaffecting approximately 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.
According to theSEC filing, the breach occurred on November 25, 2022, but was not identified until January 5, 2023.
"Our investigation is still ongoing, but the malicious activity appears to be fully contained at this time, and there is currently no evidence that the bad actor was able to breach or compromise our systems or our network," the company said.
Thestolen dataincludes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, date of birth,T-Mobileaccount numbers, and the number of lines on the account and plan features. However, the company wrote that many of the affected accounts did not contain the full data set.
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"We have notified certain federal agencies about the incident, and we are concurrently working with law enforcement," T-Mobile stated. "Additionally, we have begun notifying customers whose information may have been obtained by the bad actor in accordance with applicable state and federal requirements."
T-Mobilehas experienced eight reporteddata breachessince 2018. The most recent incident was in April 2022, when hacking group Lapsus$ gained access to the company's employee's accounts, allowing them to reassign a phone number to a device under their control, TechCrunchreportedat the time. The hackers collected data on 7.8 million users.
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