T mobile data breach sprint customers12/16/2023 ![]() The firm also noted a sharp stock drop of $4 per share when the news was announced, for a loss of $5.3 billion market cap – which the analysts think represent expectations for a fine along with the loss of value as consumers would be less likely to become a T-Mobile customer because of the breach. “On similar math, T-Mobile’s leak of roughly 50MM customers would result in a fine of around $215MM,” wrote the analysts led by Jonathan Chaplin. RELATED: T-Mobile prepaid customers hit by data breach were impacted by a similar hack and resulted in fines of up to $700 million for the company. In a Wednesday note to investors, New Street Research analysts said they didn’t know what liability T-Mobile might face for the breach, but said it was reminiscent of Equifax where about 163 million people across both the U.S. ![]() While T-Mobile’s latest update is less than the reported 100 million, it still represents a massive breach with sensitive personal customer data. ![]() Vice’s Motherboard over the weekend shed light on claims, reporting about the sale of personal data in an underground online forum, with the hacker telling the outlet information was taken from T-Mobile servers and involved records for 100 million people.īy Monday evening, T-Mobile had confirmed a data breach but not the scale or nature of information taken. T-Mobile said it started an investigation right after it was first notified late last week about claims in an online forum about compromised customer data. The carrier said it’s immediately offering two years of free identity protection services with McAfee’s ID Theft Protection service. In addition to resetting prepaid PINs, T-Mobile is recommending all postpaid customers proactively change their PIN, either online through their account or calling the T-Mobile customer care team. T-Mobile had already closed the access point where the carrier thinks hackers were able to gain access to T-Mobile servers. RELATED: T-Mobile investigates reported customer data breach Hackers also accessed information from inactive prepaid accounts via prepaid billing files, which did not include financial, credit card, debit or other payment info, or social security numbers. No customers of other related prepaid brands, Metro by T-Mobile, former Sprint prepaid, or Boost Mobile had names or PINs stolen. The carrier has reset all PINs on the exposed accounts and will be notifying customers. ![]() T-Mobile confirmed that around 850,000 current T-Mobile prepaid customers names, phone numbers and account PINs were leaked in the breach. Financial information, phone numbers, account numbers, PINs or passwords for those users don’t appear to have been breached. T-Mobile said around 7.8 million active postpaid customers accounts’ information was taken, as well as “just over 40 million” former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the carrier. RELATED: T-Mobile confirms unauthorized access to data, continues to investigate breach ![]()
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