![]() ![]() At the time, the company also committed to a two-year, 150 million. By settling the lawsuit, T-Mobile does not admit guilt to any of these accusations. In July 2022, T-Mobile agreed to settle a class action suit about that breach in a deal that included 350 million to customers. The class action lawsuit accused T-Mobile of being unable to protect its customers’ information, failing to notify those who were impacted, and having “inadequate data security”. T-Mobile will be required to spend the other $150 million towards security improvements from now through 2023 to minimize the possibility of another data breach (the company has had five breaches involving customer data in the last four years). ![]() Affected customers will be notified by T-Mobile about the settlement soon. The amount paid out to individual customers will depend on how much money lawyers are paid and how many customers respond to the class action settlement. Of the settlement amount, $350 million will be divided between customers and lawyers (to pay fees and legal costs). T-Mobile disclosed the data breach on Thursday to the Securities and Exchange Commission. A report from Motherboard back in August of 2021 identified that the customer data involved in the breach included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and driver license information of affected customers. The company’s filing said the API that was breached allowed hackers to access some forms of customer. T-Mobile released a statement last week confirming that the names, dates of birth, social security numbers, drivers licenses, phone numbers, as well as IMEI and IMSI information for about 7.8. T-Mobile’s latest security incident the seventh data breach in the past four years was first revealed. T-Mobile disclosed the data breach on Thursday to the Securities and Exchange Commission. New data breach impacts 37 million accounts T-Mobile revealed on Thursday that the attacker started stealing data using the impacted API around November 25, 2022. residents identified by T-Mobile” was compromised as per the court filing on Friday. The Lapsus hacking group has claimed another victim: U.S. T-Mobile said about 7.8 million postpaid accounts and more than 40 million records of current and potential customers were compromised by a data breach. Customer data of “approximately 76.6 million U.S. US carrier T-Mobile has agreed to pay out $500 million as part of a class action lawsuit settlement for a data breach that took place in 2021.
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