“T-Mobile has repeatedly been lax in applying minimally acceptable controls to prevent these violations of end user’s privacy and is now paying a fine the size of which should make other organizations take notice,” Oliver Tavakoli, chief technology officer at AI cybersecurity company Vectra AI Inc., told SiliconANGLE. Previous data breaches at T-Mobile included 2 million customers in 2018, a breach of unknown size in March 2020, another data breach in January 2021 and yet again in December. The August 2021 data breach wasn’t the first time T-Mobile has been hacked. Instead, the company listed efforts they have taken to double down on its cybersecurity programs. In a statement about the proposed settlement, T-Mobile didn’t mention the $350 million to be paid in compensation to customers. An even divide of the available funds would, in theory, see each affected customer receive $4.57 in compensation, barely a blip on most customers’ monthly bills and little recompense for the potential risk of having their personal information stolen. The exact amount each customer will receive in compensation is not known. residents identified by T-Mobile whose information was compromised in the data breach. The proposed settlement provides compensation to approximately 76.6 million U.S. 18, T-Mobile said 48 million customer records has been accessed, including more than 40 million former or prospective customers who had applied for credit and 7.8 million current customers of T-Mobile’s posted internet plans. 16, describing the theft as involving “authorized access to some T-Mobile data.” By Aug.
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The hacker claimed the stolen data covered more than 100 million T-Mobile customer records and included Mobile Subscriber Identity numbers, International Mobile Equipment Identity numbers, phone numbers, customer names, PINs and date of birth, as well as Social Security and driver’s license numbers. The data breach came to light after a hacker advertised T-Mobile customer records for sale on the now defunct Raid Forums hacking forum on Aug. Subject to approval, $350 million will go to a settlement fund and “at least $150 million” will go toward enhancing its data security measures, according to ArsTechnica today. The exact number of people affected by the data breach is now estimated to be as many as 80 million customers, although earlier reports put the figure at 48 million. has agreed to pay $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit against the company regarding a data breach in August 2021.
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