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ellebea's avatar
ellebea
Newbie Caller
4 years ago

Data Breach?

What is the status of the data breach report?  What is T-Mobile doing to verify and also notify customers?

  • Welcome to the new norm. Any account you have online is subject to possible breach. That said, it would be nice to hear from TMobile about what they are doing moving forward.

  • I’ve read on Reddit that some customers have received text messages. This is probably serious enough that we should all request credit freezes.

  • stlchi's avatar
    stlchi
    Newbie Caller

    Press release:

    https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/additional-information-regarding-2021-cyberattack-investigation

    • As a result of this finding, we are taking immediate steps to help protect all of the individuals who may be at risk from this cyberattack. Communications will be issued shortly to customers outlining that T-Mobile is:
      • Immediately offering 2 years of free identity protection services with McAfee’s ID Theft Protection Service.
      • Recommending all T-Mobile postpaid customers proactively change their PIN by going online into their T-Mobile account or calling our Customer Care team by dialing 611 on your phone. This precaution is despite the fact that we have no knowledge that any postpaid account PINs were compromised.
      • Offering an extra step to protect your mobile account with our Account Takeover Protection capabilities for postpaid customers, which makes it harder for customer accounts to be fraudulently ported out and stolen.
      • Publishing a unique web page later on Wednesday for one stop information and solutions to help customers take steps to further protect themselves. 
  • if you are hoping to get answers in here it wont be happening. this is primarily a peer to peer site with a few moderators/admins to keep order only.

  • Nofrills's avatar
    Nofrills
    Newbie Caller

    Tmobile is denying the data breach and told me they were investigating where the story came from?