#Tmobile data breach august 2021 license#

In August 2018, the company said that 3% of its customer data was leaked. T-Mobile has suffered 7 more large breaches since 2018. This is not the first major cybersecurity incident on T-Mobile. Not the first security breach at T-Mobile We will continue to make substantial investments to strengthen our cybersecurity program,” T-Mobile added.

“We have made substantial progress to date and protecting our customers’ data remains a top priority. In 2021, the telco commenced a substantial multi-year investment working with leading external cybersecurity experts to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities and transform its approach to cybersecurity. However, the company said the bad actor first retrieved data through the impacted API starting on or around November 25, 2022. T-Mobile said it found that a bad actor had obtained data through a single application programming interface (API) without authorization on January 5.

#Tmobile data breach august 2021 license#

However, T-Mobile in a statement insisted that customer payment card information (PCI), social security numbers/tax IDs, driver’s license or other government ID numbers, passwords/PINs, or other financial account information were not exposed. Telecom player T-Mobile US has suffered a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the exposure of the personal details of 37 million users, the company reported in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.Ĭustomer data such as customer name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number and information such as the number of lines on the account and plan features were exposed, the company revealed.