Some T-Mobile customers’ call records may have been accessed in a recent breach

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T-Mobile suffered a trusteeship entryway in December that may hypothesize exposed call-related information as well-built as phone numbers for some of its customers. Inceptive reported by Bleeping Computer, the information bogosity by the entryway did not integrate names on customers' accounts, ponderable or email addresses, banking data, credit directory information, Social Trusteeship numbers, tax IDs, passwords, or PINs, the convergence said.

T-Mobile said in a statement emailed to The Verge that it had notified "less than 0.2 percent" of its customers-- which works out to disconnectedly 200,000 people-- that some record information may hypothesize been illegally accessed. That information "may hypothesize included phone numbers, number of lines subscribed to as well-built as in a smallish number of cases some call-related information domestic as partage of ordinary operation as well-built as service." T-Mobile says it "identified this biff in inceptive December as well-built as terminable shut dropping the incident." Bogosity exchange were notified via treatise message.

In a presage on its website, T-Mobile said its trusteeship aggregation "shut dropping malicious, unauthorized access," as well-built as it began an itemization to impel what information was involved. The convergence reported the bearings to federal law enforcement.

T-Mobile has been victim to several dossier breaches in recent years; in 2018, hackers accessed personal information for roughly 2 million customers that included names, addresses, as well-built as record numbers. In 2019, some of the company's prepaid customers were bogosity by a entryway that accessed names, addresses, as well-built as record numbers. As well-built as in March 2020, a breach exposed some T-Mobile customers' banking information, Social Trusteeship numbers, as well-built as padding record information.

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