As a compensation, the telecom giant offered a free-identity-protection service from McAfee to all the affected customers and urged them to change their account PINs as early as possible. And the leaked data includes first and last names, birth dates, driving license details, social security numbers and phone numbers. Note- On August 18th, 2021, T-Mobile confirmed it had become a victim of a cyber attack where sensitive information related to over 40 million of its customers was accessed by hackers. T-Mobile was issued two lawsuits following the breach of its data. According to reporting by journalist Jeremy Kirk, the person responsible for the latest T-Mobile hack claimed that they obtained unauthorized access by exploiting a misconfigured GPRS gateway. However, released a press update via twitter that its staff is yet to reach to a conclusion over the data breach and issues like who was involved and what type of data/information was accessed and stolen. Sunday, August 22: T-Mobile faces pair of lawsuits in wake of data breach. T-Mobile is yet to acknowledge the data breach on an official note. In July, T-Mobile agreed to pay 350 million to settle a class action lawsuit after the company disclosed in August 2021 that personal data including Social Security numbers and drivers. Telecom Home Security AugT-Mobile acknowledges breach of customer data, launches probe T-Mobile said it was investigating reports of a data breach that could have affected sensitive information of 100 million customers. The 3rd category of affected customers was those whose private CPNI was viewed and their SIM cards were swapped. T-Mobile on Friday announced roughly 6 million additional accounts had data swiped in a recent hack, bringing the total number of victims of the breach to. An investigation conducted by the company. In the 2nd instance, the threat actors somehow gained server access and tried to access information related to SIM cards and IMEI number that can be used by them later to hack into their online accounts. On August 16, 2021, T-Mobile experienced yet another cyberattack that resulted in a data breach. In the first attack, hackers might have accessed billing account details such as names, phone numbers, numbers linked to the accounts and rate plan details. T-Mobile says farewell to 2021 with yet another data breach - TechHQ SECURITY SIM swapping enables hackers to take control of a mobile phone number by tricking a carrier to reassign the numbers to attacker-controlled SIM cards.
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