Data Breach Exposes Information Of More Than 40 Million T-Mobile Customers

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

August 18, 2021

Officials with T-Mobile confirm the names, Social Security numbers and information from driver’s licenses or other identification of more than 40 million former and prospective customers that applied for credit was exposed in a recent data breach.

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 approximately 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account PINs were exposed. The company said that it proactively reset all of the PINs on those accounts. No Metro by T-Mobile — which is headquartered in Frisco — or former Sprint prepaid and Boost customers had their names or PINs exposed.

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