The hacker behind the attack claimed they had the information of 100 million T-Mobile customers.
T-Mobile has released an update on the recent claims that a hacker gained access to the names, addresses, PIN numbers, social security numbers and more of millions of T-Mobile customers. While initially denying the hacker’s claims that they had the information of 100 million T-Mobile customers, the telecom giant admitted that more than eight million customers had their information lost in the cyberattack. «Our preliminary analysis is that approximately 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customer accounts’ information appears to be contained in the stolen files, as well as just over 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with T-Mobile. Importantly, no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information were compromised in any of these files of customers or prospective customers,» T-Mobile’s public relations team said in a statement. «At this time, we have also been able to confirm approximately 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account PINs were also exposed.» The company said it will be sending out letters to victims and is offering affected customers two years of free identity protection services with McAfee’s ID Theft Protection Service.
