T-Mobile is under fire again for its data breach in 2021
T-Mobile is being sued again by Washington state over the 2021 data breach that exposed sensitive information of over 79 million people. The edge Reports. The suit The lawsuit, filed Monday, alleges that T-Mobile has been aware of various security flaws in its systems for years but failed to take action. As a result, a hacker managed to do it T-Mobile violation in March 2021 and remained undetected until August of that year, when an “anonymous cybersecurity threat intelligence company” informed T-Mobile about what was happening.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson not only claims that T-Mobile knew about these deficiencies and failed to take adequate steps to correct them, but also claims that T-Mobile’s notifications to customers affected by the breach were inadequate and misleading. The text messages were brief and did not reveal the full extent of the breach. They simply told customers that debit and credit card information had not been disclosed without providing their Social Security numbers, and other personally identifiable information had been compromised.
The breach’s victims included two million Washington residents. Information from T-Mobile’s databases was later made available on the dark web for sale to the highest bidder. Apparently even T-Mobile commissioned a third party to purchase exclusive access to the data.
In more ways than one, this isn’t T-Mobile’s first rodeo. The company was already sued by AG Ferguson over a decade ago for “misleading” advertising. It has also been the target of a breach since 2021 – 2024 to be precise.”Salt typhoon“Attacks on commercial telecommunications companies. T-Mobile maintains that its systems and data were not significantly compromised.
