T-Mobile retailer suffers data breach affecting potentially thousands of customers

T-Mobile data breach class action lawsuit overview:

• Who: Plaintiff Samantha Gray has filed a class action lawsuit against T-Mobile retailer Amtel LLC d/b/a Connectivity Source.
• Why: Amtel allegedly failed to adequately safeguard current and former employees’ personal identifiable information, leaving it vulnerable to cybercriminals.
• Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Texas federal court.
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A T-Mobile retailer failed to implement adequate data security practices, leaving its systems vulnerable to a cyberattack that potentially affected thousands of consumers, a class action lawsuit alleges.

Plaintiff Samantha Gray filed the T-Mobile data breach class action lawsuit against Amtel LLC d/b/a Connectivity Source June 1 in Texas federal court.

Gray says she is a former Amtel employee, and received a letter dated May 23 from the company notifying her that her information may have been compromised in a T-Mobile data breach.

Information compromised in the T-Mobile data breach reportedly included current and former employees’ full names and Social Security numbers, personally identifiable information (PII) that can be used for identity theft.

Information stolen in T-Mobile data breach may be for sale on dark web, plaintiff says

Gray believes that her PII is for sale on the dark web “because that is the modus operandi of cybercriminals,” the class action lawsuit says.

Cybercriminals are willing to pay for PII because the sensitive data can be used to commit identity theft, Gray notes. She says that Social Security numbers are particularly bad to have stolen because they are difficult to change and can be used to commit a wide variety of fraud and identity theft.

She says that she would not have entrusted Amtel with her PII if she had known the company would not adequately protect her sensitive data.

The T-Mobile data breach letter reportedly offers 12 months of identity monitoring services, but Gray claims this offer is “wholly inadequate” because data breach victims “commonly face multiple years of ongoing identity theft, medical and financial fraud, and it entirely fails to provide sufficient compensation for the unauthorized release and disclosure of plaintiff’s and class members’ PII.”

Gray asserts that the T-Mobile data breach could have been prevented if Amtel had properly encrypted or protected the equipment and computer files that contained PII.

The T-Mobile class action lawsuit asserts claims for negligence, negligence per se, breach of implied contract, unjust enrichment, and public disclosure of private facts.

T-Mobile has already reportedly been affected by at least two other data breaches this year. In April, the company sent a letter to customers notifying them that hackers accessed PII of more than 800 customers.

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Gray is represented by Joe Kendall of Kendall Law Group PLLC and Gary M. Klinger of Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC.

The T-Mobile data breach class action lawsuit is Samantha Gray, et al. v. Amtel LLC d/b/a Connectivity Source, Case No. 4:23-cv-00546-P, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division.

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