T-Mobile Data Breach, Class-Action Lawsuit
More than 53 million T-Mobile customers were impacted by a data breach, which prompted two class-action lawsuits.
T-Mobile said it discovered another 5.3 million current customers and 667,000 former customers had their information stolen.
The private information compromised in the T-Mobile data breach included names, phone numbers, drivers’ licenses, government identification numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and T‐Mobile account PINs.
Allie Mellen, analyst of security and risk at Forrester, said T-Mobile left a gate wide open for attackers.
In addition, ongoing and previous T-Mobile customers filed two class-action lawsuits against the carrier in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Both lawsuits accuse T-Mobile of violating the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Moreover, one of them accuses the carrier of violating the Washington State Consumer Protection Act.
