T-Mobile data breach fine overview:ย
- Who: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States fined T-Mobile $60 million over a data breach the agency says occurred between August 2020 and June 2021.
- Why: The agency says T-Mobileโs failure to take appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access to certain sensitive data during the incident violated a national security agreement it entered into in 2018 as part of its merger with Sprint.ย ย
- Where: Consumers nationwide use T-Mobile as a telecom provider.ย
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States fined T-Mobile $60 million in the wake of a data breach the agency determined occurred between August 2020 and June 2021.ย
The CFIUS says T-Mobile violated a national security agreement, which the telecom company entered in 2018 as part of its merger with Sprint, by failing to take appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access to certain sensitive data during the incident.ย
The national security agreement was necessary due to the foreign ownership of the resulting post-merger entity, according to the CFIUS.ย
The agency determined T-Mobile also failed to promptly report some incidents of unauthorized access, which it says delayed its efforts to investigate and mitigate any potential harm.โ
โCFIUS concluded that these violations resulted in harm to the national security equities of the United States,โ the agency says.ย
T-Mobile says it is working with CFIUS to enhance compliance posture and obligations
T-Mobile is working with the CFIUS toโenhance its compliance posture and obligations, according to the agency, which says the company is also working with the United States to ensure compliance with its obligations going forward.ย
A spokesperson for T-Mobile, which completed its acquisition of Sprint in April 2020, reportedly says in a statement that the company is glad to have reached a resolution in the case and will continue working cooperatively with the U.S. government.ย
The spokesperson also says the penalty is the result of technical issues T-Mobile suffered following its merger with Sprint and maintains the incident was not a breach or intrusion and no bad actor was involved.
A consumer filed a class action lawsuit against T-Mobile in January 2023 over claims it failed to protect the private data of its customers during a separate data breach announced earlier that month.ย
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I was apart of that Data breach in 2020-2021, through my T-Mobile Money account I had back then. This has been humiliating and embarrassing for me, and T-Mobile still continues to want to charge me for a suspended home Internet account I have the pictures of where I haVE zero access to the 5G WIRELESS NETWORK and it gets turned on just enough that I end up with a monthly bill thats piling up for someone like myself that lives on a fixed income. I would like to have my identity back and also want the disconnected Internet to stop constantly charging me hundreds of dollars. I also pay for unlimited cell phone service through Qlink wireless that T-Mobile provides the data for and I get shut down to no pages loading
I was apart of that Data breach in 2020-2021, through my T-Mobile Money account I had back then. This has been humiliating and embarrassing for me, and T-Mobile still continues to want to charge me for a suspended home Internet account I have the pictures of where I haVE zero access to the 5G WIRELESS NETWORK and it gets turned on just enough that I end up with a monthly bill thats piling up for someone like myself that lives on a fixed income. I would like to have my identity back and also want the disconnected Internet to stop constantly charging me hundreds of dollars. I also pay for unlimited cell phone service through Qlink wireless that T-Mobile provides service for well last week and a half of the end of the month and it gets shut down to 2- 2.5gb of data making it impossible for and web browser to load but keeping you on what they call Always on.
T-Mobile has messed with our bill for years and a few of my accounts I had were hacked and money was taken I can no longer use Apple Pay because of this.
I had some goofy bill issues several times
I got hit hard by this data breachโฆ My passwords and all account info leaked. They were able to pose as me and my entire account was cancelled without me knowing. Iโm fighting with them now on the massive bill it left me with cause I was still paying on two phones so they charged me full price. Very frustrating!