T-Mobile Gets Hacked Again: Is the Un-Carrier Un-Safe? – By Bree Fowler (CNET) / Jan 21, 2023
Five breaches in five years isn’t a record to be proud of.
T-Mobile has a cybersecurity problem and, after half a decade, still hasn’t been able to get a handle on it.
The nation’s second-largest wireless carrier disclosed in a regulatory filing late Thursday that data from 37 million of its customers was stolen in a breach. Security experts say that while the data wasn’t extremely sensitive, its compromise could put those people at high risk of being scammed or otherwise targeted by cybercriminals.
Sound familiar? That’s because T-Mobile was already dealing with the fallout from a 2021 data breach that compromised the personal information of nearly 77 million people. T-Mobile agreed to a $500 million settlement in that case in July.
This marks just the latest in a string of incidents going back to 2018, a massive stain on a company that once championed the “Un-carrier” movement of sticking up for consumers screwed by the wireless company. The sheer volume of incidents has experts questioning whether staying with the carrier puts you at risk.
