- Hackers accessed T-Mobile’s customer data.
- A spokesperson stated that around 0.2% or 200,000 affected.
- Hackers didn’t have access to any personal information.
T-Mobile recently completed its latest $26 billion merger with Sprint. It is now the third-largest cell carrier in the United States. However, T-Mobile ended 2020 by announcing its second data breach of the year.
Second Data Leak for T-Mobile
In December, T-Mobile experienced a security breach that could have exposed some of its client’s call-related details and phone numbers. The details affected by the breach, identified by Bleeping Computer, did not include customer account names, physical or email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax IDs, passwords, or PINs, the company said.
T-Mobile posted about the breach in a notice on its website. The cell giant said that it recently found unauthorized access to the account information of certain customers. The breach included the data that T-Mobile makes and gathers from its customers to provide cell service.
This information can include call logs, known as customer proprietary network information (CPNI). Information such as when a call was made, for how long, the phone number of the caller and the phone numbers of the destination for each call, and other information that may be contained on the customer’s bill.
T-Mobile Counteracting against Leaks
In a statement on its website, the cell giant said it recently found unauthorized access to the account information of some clients. Recently, our cybersecurity team discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some of your T-Mobile account information. Announced T-Mobile.
We immediately launched an investigation to determine what occurred and what information was involved, with the assistance of leading cybersecurity forensics experts. Claimed T-Mobile. We have disclosed this matter to federal law enforcement immediately and are now in the process of notifying affected clients. T-Mobile concluded the Statement.
A T-Mobile spokesperson said the breach occurred in early December, affecting about 0.2 percent of all T-Mobile subscribers, or about 200,000 customers. It’s the latest safety incident in recent years that has affected the cell giant.
T-Mobile said that as many as two million customers might have had their personal data canceled in 2018. The company reported a year later that hackers had breached data on another million prepaid customers. In March, T-Mobile previously experienced data abuse. The incident involved some of the same data that was compromised in the most recent incident. However, unlike the recent event, the March case also included the names of clients.
