T-Mobile Says Unidentified Hacker Stole Personal Data From 37 Million Customers - TIME

BOSTON — The U.S. wireless bearer T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its web successful precocious November and stole information connected 37 cardinal customers, including addresses, telephone numbers and dates of birth.

T-Mobile said successful a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission that the breach was discovered Jan. 5. It said the information exposed to theft — based connected its probe to day — did not see passwords oregon PINs, slope relationship oregon recognition paper information, Social Security numbers oregon different authorities IDs.

“Our probe is inactive ongoing, but the malicious enactment appears to beryllium afloat contained astatine this time,” T-Mobile said, with nary grounds the intruder was capable to breach the company’s network. The institution did not instantly respond to an email seeking comment.

T-Mobile said it has notified instrumentality enforcement and national agencies, which it did not name. The institution said it did not expect the incidental to person worldly interaction connected its operations. It said the information was archetypal accessed connected oregon astir Nov. 25.

T-Mobile has been hacked before. In July, it agreed to wage $350 cardinal to customers who filed a people enactment lawsuit aft the institution disclosed successful August 2021 that idiosyncratic information including Social Security numbers and driver’s licence info had been stolen. Nearly 80 cardinal U.S. residents were affected.

It besides said astatine the clip that it would walk $150 cardinal done 2023 to fortify its information information and different technologies.

Prior to the August 2021 intrusion, the institution disclosed breaches successful January 2021, November 2019 and August 2018 successful which lawsuit accusation was accessed.

T-Mobile, based successful Bellevue, Washington, became 1 of the country’s largest cellphone work carriers successful 2020 after buying rival Sprint successful 2020. It reported having much than 102 cardinal customers aft the merger.

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