Another data breach has occurred at T-Mobile, which has resulted in the exposure of the private details of 37 million of the company’s customers. If you are a subscriber of T-Mobile at this point, you probably aren’t all that shocked, seeing as how data breaches seem to be such a typical occurrence with the cellular company. It was just a few short years ago, in 2021, that the company had its most recent significant data breach.
Although the personal information of 37 million consumers was compromised this time around, the prior data breach included over 40 million users and was far more severe. In addition, the breach in 2021 was more significant since it disclosed customer names, dates of birth, social security numbers, ID numbers, and a variety of other identifying information. Because the event happened so recently, the corporation is still accepting compensation claims for anyone who were harmed by the assault on its website, which still has the settlement page available.
The corporation did make an announcement about the breach on its own homepage, but it did not provide too many specifics about the incident. Those who were interested in learning more about the security breach should have instead referred to the filing that was submitted to the SEC. T-Mobile claims that it was the victim of a security breach beginning on or around November 25, 2022, and that it is in the process of contacting people who were impacted by the incident. Concerning what took place, the business came to the conclusion that a malicious party used a single Application Programming Interface, often known as an API, to get certain sorts of information related to their accounts. In addition to this, it adds that the problem was resolved within twenty-four hours after its discovery.
There was no breach of any financial account information, including passwords, credit card details, social security numbers, government ID numbers, or any financial account details. We were able to access some fundamental information about our customers, such as their names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, account numbers, and other details, such as the number of lines on their accounts and the features of their service plans.
