All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account On Monday, T-Mobile confirmed a cybersecurity incident but offered no further details at the time. The investigation into the breach began after Vice reported on Sunday that hackers were offering T-Mobile customer data for sale on the dark web. T-Mobile said it will offer two years of free credit monitoring to affected customers. Account PINs belonging to the 850,000 prepaid customers were compromised, however, and T-Mobile said it has unilaterally reset those PINs as a security precaution.Ĭustomers of other T-Mobile prepaid brands including Metro, Boost and former Sprint prepaid customers have not had their PINs or names exposed, T-Mobile added. The company is recommending that all T-Mobile postpaid customers preemptively change the PINs protecting their accounts, though it said it has no evidence those PINs have been compromised. While no customer financial information appears to have been exposed, the stolen personal information includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers for “a subset of current and former postpay customers and prospective T-Mobile customers.” Related article T-Mobile confirms it was hit by data breach retail store in Torrance, California, U.S., on Monday, Nov. Galaxy 3 smartphone for a customer at a T-Mobile US Inc.

The company noted that it began a “substantial, multi-year investment” in 2021 to improve its cybersecurity capabilities and protections. “We will continue to make substantial investments to strengthen our cybersecurity program.” “Protecting our customers’ data remains a top priority,” T-Mobile said in a statement. (TMUS)’s systems and network do not appear to have been hacked. The company says it continues to investigate the breach but believes it is “fully contained.” It also noted T-Mobile (TMUS) was able to discover the source of the breach and stop it a day after the hack was discovered. (TMUS) learned about the data breach, the company said it hired an external cybersecurity team to investigate. It noted that it could be on the hook for “significant expenses” because of the hack, although the company said it doesn’t expect the charges will have a material effect on T-Mobile’s bottom line. The wireless carrier didn’t indicate what it might do to remedy the situation. T-Mobile said it is working with law enforcement and has begun to notify customers whose information may have been breached. Nevertheless, that information can be compiled with other stolen or publicly available information and used by scammers to steal people’s identities or money.

T-Mobile said no social security numbers, credit card information, government ID numbers, passwords, PINs or financial information were exposed in the hack. In a regulatory filing Thursday, the company said the hacker stole customer data that included names, billing addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, T-Mobile account numbers and information describing the kind of service they have with the wireless carrier. T-Mobile said a “bad actor” accessed personal data from 37 million current customers in a November data breach.

T mobile cybersecurity