Checks Being Sent To Victims Of T-Mobile Data Breach
The post Checks Being Sent To Victims Of T-Mobile Data Breach appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. This Feb. 24, 2021 photo shows a T-Mobile store at a shopping mall in Pittsburgh. T-Mobile said … More Wednesday, Aug. 18, that customers’ first and last names, date of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license/ID information were exposed. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved In August of 2021 hackers offered for sale on the Dark Web data of what they said was 100 million customers of phone carrier T-Mobile. This was the first indication that T-Mobile had been hacked. Soon hereafter T- Mobile confirmed the data breach but said that the number of people affected was approximately 76 million people. The information being sold included names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and addresses. Also being sold were the PINS used by some T-Mobile customers to protect their accounts from identity theft. This type of information poses a tremendous threat of identity theft to victims of the data breach, which was the sixth for T-Mobile in the last four years. Social Security numbers can be used by identity thieves to apply for credit cards and loans in your name. In addition, the phone numbers and the fact that the victims of the data breach were known to be T-Mobile customers enabled the hackers to create phony phishing text messages posing as T-Mobile to lure the targeted victims into clicking on links in the text messages that would download destructive malware. As a result of T-Mobile’s history of inadequate cybersecurity, the FCC brought legal action against T-Mobile which it settled in 2024. According to the terms of the settlement, T-Mobile agreed to pay a $15.75 million civil penalty as well as allocate an additional $15.75 million into strengthening its cybersecurity program. As is typical in settlements such as this, T-Mobile did not admit it did…
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This Feb. 24, 2021 photo shows a T-Mobile store at a shopping mall in Pittsburgh. T-Mobile said … More Wednesday, Aug. 18, that customers’ first and last names, date of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license/ID information were exposed. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved In August of 2021 hackers offered for sale on the Dark Web data of what they said was 100 million customers of phone carrier T-Mobile. This was the first indication that T-Mobile had been hacked. Soon hereafter T- Mobile confirmed the data breach but said that the number of people affected was approximately 76 million people. The information being sold included names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and addresses. Also being sold were the PINS used by some T-Mobile customers to protect their accounts from identity theft. This type of information poses a tremendous threat of identity theft to victims of the data breach, which was the sixth for T-Mobile in the last four years. Social Security numbers can be used by identity thieves to apply for credit cards and loans in your name. In addition, the phone numbers and the fact that the victims of the data breach were known to be T-Mobile customers enabled the hackers to create phony phishing text messages posing as T-Mobile to lure the targeted victims into clicking on links in the text messages that would download destructive malware. As a result of T-Mobile’s history of inadequate cybersecurity, the FCC brought legal action against T-Mobile which it settled in 2024. According to the terms of the settlement, T-Mobile agreed to pay a $15.75 million civil penalty as well as allocate an additional $15.75 million into strengthening its cybersecurity program. As is typical in settlements such as this, T-Mobile did not admit it did…
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