Last month, T-Mobile revealed in an investor call that it has 114.9 million customers.Ī request for additional comment has been sent by Scripps News to T-Mobile. In a letter to customers, T-Mobile also encouraged customers to sign up for credit alerts from companies like Experian, Equifax or TransUnion. No, this time, it is not massive data breaches like what took place. In a whirlwind of leaks, T-Mobile has once again found itself in the spotlight. The company is also providing two years of credit monitoring to customers affected by the breach. John Lopez, Tech Times 04 July 2023, 02:07 pm. T-Mobile said it reset pin numbers for affected customers. SEE MORE: Data breach? Here's what you should do immediately But in that breach, no social security or government ID numbers were taken, T-Mobile said. This was the second major breach T-Mobile has announced this year. In January, the company said that 37 million customers were impacted. More than 40 million T-Mobile customers have been hit by a US data breach, the company has admitted.
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"The information obtained for each customer varied, but may have included full name, contact information, account number and associated phone numbers, T-Mobile account PIN, social security number, government ID, date of birth, balance due, internal codes that T-Mobile uses to service customer accounts (for example, rate plan and feature codes), and the number of lines," T-Mobile told customers.
T-Mobile said the safeguards "worked as designed" to alert the company of someone accessing customer information in February and March 2023.Īlthough financial records were not included in the breach, T-Mobile said some sensitive personal information might have been accessed. The company said that it has a number of "safeguards in place" to prevent a breach like this from happening. The company informed its customers that financial account information and call records were not part of the breach. T-Mobile informed some customers recently that "bad actors" accessed their information, including social security and government ID numbers.
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