T-Mobile discloses data breach affecting millions of customers

By Joe Williams

Published August 24, 2018 1:30pm ET

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T-Mobile discloses data breach affecting millions of customers — FILE - This Sept. 12, 2012 file photo shows a man using a cellphone as he passes a T-Mobile store in New York. T-Mobile USA knowingly made hundreds of millions off its customers in bogus charges, a federal regulator alleged Tuesday in a complaint that is likely to damage the reputation of a household name in wireless communications. In its complaint filed in federal court, the Federal Trade Commission claimed that T-Mobile billed consumers for subscriptions to premium text services such as $10-per-month horoscopes that were never authorized by the account holder. The FTC alleges that T-Mobile collected as much as 40 percent of the charges, even after being alerted by other customers that the subscriptions were scams. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) | Mark Lennihan

Hackers recently stole personal information from T-Mobile customers, including billing zip codes, account numbers and email addresses, the company said in a statement.

“On August 20, our cybersecurity team discovered and shut down an unauthorized access to certain information,” T-Mobile said. “We take the security of your information very seriously and have a number of safeguards in place to protect your personal information from unauthorized access.”

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