A “highly sophisticated” cyber-attack illegally accessed nearly 55 million customer records of mobile phone carrier T-Mobile, the largest such attack against the company that has been hit at least four previous times since 2018.
The company acknowledged Tuesday that hackers stole personal information on more than 7.8 million existing customers, 40 million former or prospective customers, and 850,000 prepaid customers. The breach came to light after a hacker made claims on the dark web to have accessed and stolen the information of more than 100 million T-Mobile customers, as reported by Vice.
