T-Mobile admits massive security breach exposing more than 40M people
“We take our customers’ protection very seriously.”
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T-Mobile experienced a security breach that has accessed the personal information of 40 million past and prospective customers, the company announced on Wednesday.
Information accessed in the breach included some personal information and identification. Another 7.8 million current customers also had their information compromised.
“Some of the data accessed did include customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information for a subset of current and former postpay customers and prospective T-Mobile customers,” T-Mobile said in a press release
T-Mobile further stated that no pins or financial information was accessed from those customers in the breach.
“Importantly, no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information were compromised in any of these files of customers or prospective customers,” T-Mobile said.
However, the company did add that further examination found that “850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account PINs” were also exposed in the breach.