Google Fi Customers Caught Up in T-Mobile Data Breach - PCMag

Google is successful the process of telling Google Fi customers that their information was stolen arsenic portion of the T-Mobile breach earlier this month.

On Jan. 5, a hacker breached T-Mobile's web and stole information from 37 cardinal lawsuit accounts. Google Fi uses T-Mobile's web for the bulk of its connections, and it seems the hacker was truthful capable to entree Google Fi lawsuit information arsenic well.

The Google Fi squad emailed customers yesterday to pass them "there has been suspicious enactment relating to a 3rd enactment strategy that contains a constricted magnitude of Google Fi lawsuit data." The accusation stolen includes:

• phone number

• SIM paper serial number

• when an relationship was activated

• account presumption (active, inactive)

• mobile work program details (e.g. unlimited SMS, planetary roaming)

No Google systems were accessed straight during the information breach and nary lawsuit idiosyncratic accusation was taken beyond what's listed above.

Google was keen to constituent retired successful the email that the information stolen "does not incorporate your name, day of birth, email address, outgo paper information, societal information fig oregon taxation IDs, driver’s licence oregon different signifier of authorities ID, oregon fiscal relationship information, passwords oregon PINs that you whitethorn usage for Google Fi, oregon the contents of immoderate SMS messages oregon calls."

Any lawsuit receiving this email from Google Fi needs to beryllium alert for phishing attempts. The hacker got conscionable capable accusation that idiosyncratic could dependable rather convincing connected a telephone oregon successful an email.