T-Mobile has announced
that on August 20th, the company was hit by hackers who were able to
gain access to personal information from roughly 2 million customers,
including the name, billing zip code, phone number, email address,
account number, and account type of users. According to the company,
more sensitive information — financial data, Social Security numbers,
and passwords — weren’t compromised in the hack.
T-Mobile gave a statement on the breach, saying anyone
whose data has been stolen either has been or shortly will be notified
via a text message. So if you’re T-Mobile customer and you haven’t
gotten an alert, you’re probably safe.
T-Mobile hasn’t given a concrete number of how many customers have had their information compromised, although in a statement given to Motherboard,
a T-Mobile spokesperson noted that the hack affected “about” or
“slightly less than” 3 percent of the carrier’s 77 million customers
(which works out to around 2 million users).
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