Article: T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach

[triplets_93]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akg8wg/tmobile-investigating-customer-data-breach-100-million

 

[CyberB0b]

These large companies playing fast and loose with our data shoud get huge fines. Time to end this stuff.

 

[cowboyec]

great.
just great.

 

[CouchCoach]

You don't have to worry unless you are a massive customer. Mike McCarthy better be heads up on this.

 

[triplets_93]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-40-million-customer-records-affected-in-hack

T-Mobile US Inc. said an investigation confirmed about 7.8 million current users had information stolen along with more than 40 million records from past or prospective customers who’d applied for credit in a cyberattack.

The stolen information included customers’ full names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and IDs such as drivers licenses, the Bellevue, Washington-based company said in a statement on Wednesday. The hack doesn’t appear to have included credit card details or other financial information, it said.

The company said earlier this week that it was investigating claims that a widescale data breach had exposed customer details to hackers who were selling information online. The company is offering people affected by the attack two years of identity protection services and boosting security protocols on accounts that make it more difficult for fraudsters to take control.

 

[nobody]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-40-million-customer-records-affected-in-hack

T-Mobile US Inc. said an investigation confirmed about 7.8 million current users had information stolen along with more than 40 million records from past or prospective customers who’d applied for credit in a cyberattack.

The stolen information included customers’ full names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and IDs such as drivers licenses, the Bellevue, Washington-based company said in a statement on Wednesday. The hack doesn’t appear to have included credit card details or other financial information, it said.

The company said earlier this week that it was investigating claims that a widescale data breach had exposed customer details to hackers who were selling information online. The company is offering people affected by the attack two years of identity protection services and boosting security protocols on accounts that make it more difficult for fraudsters to take control.

They should have made it 3 years. It was their mess up. No company should be able to require social security numbers. That's between citizens, their employer, and the government and should only be between those...ever.

 

[terra]

With both a SSN and DL# you can easily put together a full identity. Absolutely agree that this company should be worked HARD. As said requiring a SSN should be forbidden as regards private enterprise.