T-Cell Racks Up Third Client Knowledge Publicity of 2023

A number of T-Cell USA prospects have gone to social media to report seeing the delicate info of different prospects when logging in to view their private account. 

The leaked knowledge contains bank card balances, buy historical past, bank card info, gadget IDs, and residential addresses. The difficulty was initially extreme sufficient that the T-Cell subreddit requested customers to cease sharing info through social media.

“ATTENTION: We’re conscious of the safety problem happening. For safety causes, we aren’t permitting posts on the subject,” the put up learn. “Please don’t put up any details about the continued problem. We’re ready to listen to from T-Cell and don’t need to exacerbate the problem.”

As of Sept. 20, T-Cell stated that the problem has been resolved and was attributable to a “expertise replace” glitch.

“There was no cyberattack or breach at T-Cell. This was a non permanent system glitch associated to a deliberate in a single day expertise replace involving restricted account info for fewer than 100 prospects, which was rapidly resolved,” stated Tara Darrow, T-Cell spokesperson, in an announcement.

Whereas this will likely come as a reduction for some, to others it could solely additional increase issues about whether or not T-Cell has questionable cybersecurity safeguards, as a result of firm going through a number of breaches this yr alone. January, T-Cell fell sufferer to a breach that uncovered 37 million prospects’ knowledge, which went on to additionally have an effect on prospects of Google Fi. This previous Might, the corporate but once more confronted an assault that began in February and resulted in March, affecting 836 prospects. 

And naturally, the telecom operator suffered an information breach in 2021 that affected 47 million individuals, finally resulting in a class-action lawsuit and a $500 million settlement. And final yr, T-Cell agreed to pay a settlement of $2.5 million as restitution for its function within the 2015 Experian knowledge breach, which affected 15 million potential T-Cell prospects.