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T-Mobile CEO says ‘truly sorry’ for hack of 50 million users’ data

T-Mobile CEO says ‘truly sorry’ for hack of 50 million users’ data

By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Digital T-Mobile says it has notified nearly all of the millions of customers whose personal data was stolen and that it is “truly sorry” for the breach. What’s happening CEO Mike Sievert said in a written statement Friday that the company spends lots of effort to try to stay ahead of criminal hackers “but we didn’t live up to the expectations we have for ourselves to protect our customers. Knowing that we failed to prevent this exposure is one of the hardest parts of this event.” The company disclosed earlier in August that…
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Some customers’ personal data exposed in T-Mobile breach

Some customers’ personal data exposed in T-Mobile breach

By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Business NEW YORK — The names, Social Security numbers and information from driver’s licenses or other identification of just over 40 million former and prospective customers that applied for T-Mobile credit were exposed in a recent data breach, the company said Wednesday. The same data for about 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers appears to be compromised. No phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords or financial information from the nearly 50 million records and accounts were compromised, it said. T-Mobile also confirmed that about 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and…
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