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T-Mobile reportedly suffers another, smaller data breach [telecom]

From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 28 21:30:15 2021

Following a large breach earlier this year, some T-Mobile customers
appear to have gotten an unwelcome end-of-year surprise.

By Lori Grunin <https://www.cnet.com/profiles/lgrunin/>

T-Mobile has reportedly suffered another data breach, a few months after
a huge breach in August

<https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/t-mobile-data-breach-more-than-50-million-people-now-affected/>.

The new breach seems to have affected a smaller group of customers, who received notifications of "unauthorized activity" that consisted of
hackers checking out customer proprietary network information, pulling
off a physical SIM swap, or both,says

<https://tmo.report/2021/12/t-mobile-has-suffered-yet-another-data-breach/>a

Tuesday post by blog The T-Mo Report.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobile-reportedly-suffers-another-smaller-data-breach/

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