T-Mobile has been hacked… again.
In an update on its website the wireless provider has published a “notice of security incident” (don’t you love the way companies try to find words to make their data breach notifications sound as dull as possible>).
In its advisory, T-Mobile says that its security team recently discovered that hackers had managed to access information related to T-Mobile accounts.
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Fortunately, according to the company, the breach did not expose names associated with accounts, physical or email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax ID, passwords, or PINs.
But the unauthorised access did involve customer proprietary network information (CPNI), which “may have included phone number, number of lines subscribed to on your account and, in some cases, call-related information collected as part of the normal operation of your wireless service.”
T-Mobile said it was sorry for any inconvenience that may have been caused for customers, and that it took “the security of customer information seriously.” Which was good of them to say, but woe betide if we ever had a data breach where the targeted company didn’t underline how seriously it took security.
Law enforcement agencies have been informed, and impacted customers are being impacted. Details have not been shared regarding how the hackers managed to gain access to the exposed customer information.
Of course, some may recall that this is far from the first time that T-Mobile has been hacked. Indeed, by my count this has been T-Mobile’s fourth ..
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