The government can fine a company for being this in your face, I don’t give a ***t, all they want. Nothing will change. Companies KNOW beforehand their penalties will be child’s play already figuring out their profits will far exceed any fines that are imposed. This is the 9th, you read right!! Breach #9 since 2019. For the sake of national security its time to close its doors.
Blockquote This breach is the ninth T-Mobile suffered since 2019, with the other incidents being:
- In 2019, T-Mobile exposed the account information of an undisclosed number of prepaid customers.
- In March 2020, T-Mobile employees were affected by a data breach exposing their personal and financial information.
- In December 2020, threat actors accessed customer proprietary network information (phone numbers, call records).
- In February 2021, an internal T-Mobile application was accessed by unknown attackers without authorization.
- In August 2021, hackers brute-forced their way through the carrier’s network following a breach of a T-Mobile testing environment.
- In April 2022, the Lapsus$ extortion gang breached T-Mobile’s network using stolen credentials.
- In January 2023, T-Mobile confirmed attackers stole the personal information of 37 million customers by abusing a vulnerable Application Programming Interface (API) in November 2022.
- In May 2023, T-Mobile disclosed a breach impacting only 836 customers, but that exposed sensitive information.