T-Mobile Customers File Class Actions As Investigation Finds 53 Million People Affected By Data Breach

• T-Mobile confirms that an additional 5.3 million customers have had their information stolen during a data breach.

• More than 53 million T-Mobile customers have been affected by the cybersecurity attack.

• Two class actions have been filed against the wireless service provider as customers seek compensation.

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The number of users whose personal information could have been compromised in a recent T-Mobile cyberattack has climbed to 53 million, as the telecommunications company is hit with a pair of class actions.

T-Mobile announced Friday that it discovered that 5.3 million current customers and 667,000 former customers have also had their information stolen.

The mobile operator is now facing two class actions filed by disgruntled customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Both lawsuits accuse T-Mobile of violating the California Consumer Privacy Act, which allows any Californian to see all of the information a business has stored on them, as well as a complete list of all third parties with whom the data. are shared. One of the lawsuits also accuses T-Mobile of violating Washington state consumer protection law over poor data security.

According to the Espanoza v. T-Mobile USA Inc., the plaintiffs and the class members allege that their identity is at risk due to T-Mobile’s negligence. Complainants are also concerned about monetary costs and “time spent mitigating the effects of the data breach, including time spent dealing with actual or attempted fraud and identity theft.”

Information stolen from customers includes names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, social security numbers and driver’s license information. T-Mobile says the information stolen from additional customers did not include social security numbers and driver’s license information.

T-Mobile does not believe customers had their financial, credit card, debit, or other payment information stolen in the attack.

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T-Mobile resets the PINs associated with these accounts and also offers additional protection services such as McAfee Identity Theft Protection Service and Account Takeover Protection capabilities for all customers.

“We continue to take steps to protect everyone at risk from this cyber attack, including additional people we have recently identified,” the company said in a statement. “We have sent communications to millions of customers and other affected people and are providing support in a variety of ways.”

T-Mobile initially became aware of the data breach after hackers posted on an underground forum, Vice’s motherboard first reported.

The information seller is asking for six bitcoins, worth about $ 297,279 at the time of publication, for 30 million Social Security and driver’s license numbers, according to Motherboard. The seller privately offers the rest of the breached information.

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