As the saying goes , I am , therefore I am hacked . Or something like that .
Such is the universe of T - Mobile postpaid customers , more than a million of whom had their account details and other personal information expose by an unauthorised breach , according toTechCrunch ’s appraisal . The companyannouncedthe breach in a letter to customers on Friday .
The give away data point includes names , earphone numbers , billing addresses , T - Mobile account numbers , and inside information about rates and plan , the troupe say . It added that no payment card information nor Social Security numbers racket were debunk by the “ malicious , unauthorized access . ” The company also say that “ no passwords were compromised”—but if you ’re a postpaid T - Mobile client , it ’s probably a undecomposed idea to go change your password anyway .
Photo: Mark Lennihan (AP)
Because the breach involved “ customer proprietary net information , ” the company ’s revelation to impacted customers is require by the Federal Communications Commission .
“ We take the security of your data very badly and have a number of safeguards in place to protect your personal information from unauthorized access , ” the company said in the note to affected customers , ignore the tangible satire . “ We truly rue that this incident occurred and apologize for any inconvenience this has make you . ”
The T - Mobile breach come amid the fellowship ’s endeavor to unite with Sprint — so , no great timing ! TheFCCand theU.S. Department of Justicehave both approved the amalgamation ; however , a group of Department of State attorneys general hasfiled suitto block the $ 26 billion deal on the land that a amalgamated wireless grocery store could get up monetary value for customers .
In other news , T - Mobile ’s gregarious CEO , John Legere , announcedon Monday that he will step down from the use next April .
While the T - Mobile hack is nothing compared to the mega - breach we ’ve seen in late years , it service as a reminder that if something can be hack , it probably will be . Despite that miserable reality , Union lawmaker , who have the top executive to necessitate companies take expectant measures to protect our personal selective information , have done exactly two things toward that death : Jack and whoreson — and Jack just leave townspeople with your data .
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