T-Mobile Data Breach 2021: 14 Things for TMUS Stock Investors to Know

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T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS) is investigating claims of a 2021 data breach that includes as much as 100 million customers’ information.

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Here’s everything you need to know about the T-Mobile data breach 2021 news.

  • A hacker on an underground forum claims to have data for roughly 100 million people.
  • According to this person, the data comes from T-Mobile’s servers.
  • The hacker is seeking 6 Bitcoin (CCC:BTC-USD) for a section of data covering 30 million users.
  • They claim that the remainder of the data is being sold privately.
  • If the reports are true, the hacker has obtained a dangerous amount of data from T-Mobile.
  • That includes “social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses and driver licenses information.”
  • T-Mobile is aware of the claims made by the hacker and is investigating the matter.
  • However, it doesn’t have any additional details to provide at this moment.
  • This would be far from the first time that T-Mobile has suffered a data breach.
  • It’s been the target of hackers several times over the last few years.
  • Most of those cases only saw data such as phone and account numbers being stolen.
  • Even so, there was one incident in 2020 that saw a small number of customers’ social security numbers stolen.
  • The massive size of the current data breach means that it’s unlikely the data being sold is from one of the previous incidents.
  • T-Mobile customers will want to keep their eyes out for more 2021 data breach news as this story develops.

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