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T-Mobile Issued a Notice of Second Data Breach: No Customers’ Financial Details Impacted
Welcome to "The Outwrite Podcast". This article is published on www.theoutwrite.com by Varun Singh Rajput. T-Mobile founded in 1990 is a 2nd largest Telecommunications company in the US after its merge with Sprint in the recent past. The company has over 140 millions customers in the United States hence data security is one of the prime challenges to deal with in today’s time. Why did I say challenge? Because T-Mobile just announced a second data breach last year.
As per the company, hackers couldn’t access any financial details but unauthorized access did take place related to the T-Mobile account. The data breach could’ve impacted customer proprietary information (CPNI) which would include a number of lines subscribed, phone number, call related information etc.
Matt Staneff, CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) at T-Mobile Issued a statement regarding the security incident, “Our Cybersecurity team recently discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile account. We immediately started an investigation, with assistance from leading cybersecurity forensics experts, to determine what happened and what information was involved. We also immediately reported this matter to federal law enforcement and are now in the process of notifying impacted customers.”
The company emphasis multiple times that the hackers couldn’t access credit card information, financial data, social security numbers, Tax ID, passwords or PINs, physical or email addresses, names.
Such security incidents at cell giant like T-Mobile raise a valid serious question on the customers’ data privacy. A company worth over $70 billion with such a huge customer base after a well-known merge with Sprint (completed in 2020), – isn’t able to secure their customers’ data. These are repetitive instances, and it might challenge users’ trust in the company. I am sure T-Mobile is taking all the necessary steps to level up the cybersecurity and avoid any kind of data breach in future.
Thanks for your time, please share your valuable feedback & comments - our email address is: [email protected].
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Welcome to "The Outwrite Podcast". This article is published on www.theoutwrite.com by Varun Singh Rajput. T-Mobile founded in 1990 is a 2nd largest Telecommunications company in the US after its merge with Sprint in the recent past. The company has over 140 millions customers in the United States hence data security is one of the prime challenges to deal with in today’s time. Why did I say challenge? Because T-Mobile just announced a second data breach last year.
As per the company, hackers couldn’t access any financial details but unauthorized access did take place related to the T-Mobile account. The data breach could’ve impacted customer proprietary information (CPNI) which would include a number of lines subscribed, phone number, call related information etc.
Matt Staneff, CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) at T-Mobile Issued a statement regarding the security incident, “Our Cybersecurity team recently discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile account. We immediately started an investigation, with assistance from leading cybersecurity forensics experts, to determine what happened and what information was involved. We also immediately reported this matter to federal law enforcement and are now in the process of notifying impacted customers.”
The company emphasis multiple times that the hackers couldn’t access credit card information, financial data, social security numbers, Tax ID, passwords or PINs, physical or email addresses, names.
Such security incidents at cell giant like T-Mobile raise a valid serious question on the customers’ data privacy. A company worth over $70 billion with such a huge customer base after a well-known merge with Sprint (completed in 2020), – isn’t able to secure their customers’ data. These are repetitive instances, and it might challenge users’ trust in the company. I am sure T-Mobile is taking all the necessary steps to level up the cybersecurity and avoid any kind of data breach in future.
Thanks for your time, please share your valuable feedback & comments - our email address is: [email protected].