Author Topic: T-Mobile was hacked, 15 million addresses, names, and SSNs numbers stolen  (Read 1931 times)

*sigh*

http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/01/tmobile-experian-hack/

"T-Mobile has just revealed that it has been the victim of a major hack that has exposed the personal details, including social security numbers, for approximately 15 million of its customers. CEO John Legere has just posted a letter regarding the hack in which he says that a data breach of credit vendor Experian has revealed the info; T-Mobile uses Experian to process its credit applications. Names, addresses and birth dates for those 15 million customers were revealed to the hackers as well as encrypted data that contained details like social security numbers and drivers license numbers. Unfortunately, Experian believes that the encryption protecting those bits of data was compromised, as well."

If you have T-Mobile, I suggest you make sure there's no suspicious activity on your credit card or anything else.

EDIT: Made a small mistake, no credit card numbers were revealed, but SSNs still were and that's really bad.

EDIT2: If you know someone else who has t-mobile, like a parent or a friend or whatever you should probably let them know too.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2015, 07:29:37 PM by Ipquarx »

T-Mobile doesn't even work where I live although we tried it. I guess I should be glad.




If you haven't enrolled and are in the affected date range of September 1st 2013 to September 1st 2015, you probably should now.  I just switched back in July and financed with a credit check so I may or may not be in the "completely forgeted" bracket.

Edit:  This only affects post-paid services, meaning, if you don't buy a prepaid card online, over the phone, or in a store, and or don't have any services that would require SSN you are fine.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2015, 07:04:13 PM by suburb »

forget i'm with t-mobile

so is it t-mobile's fault or experian's
cus it sounds like experian's

so is it t-mobile's fault or experian's
cus it sounds like experian's

It was entirely Experian, they contacted T-Mobile about it

Edit:

More information coming from my T-Mobile account alerts that redirect to the Experian site

http://www.experian.com/data-breach/t-mobilefacts.html

http://www.t-mobile.com/landing/experian-data-breach.html?icid=WOR_NA_CLRSKY_RS70QGIWYYL3064

My Verizon friends, please stay safe.



Holy forget. Talk about life hacking.


so is it t-mobile's fault or experian's
cus it sounds like experian's
It was experian's fault but it was also T-Mobile's fault for not making sure that experian was actually safe from attacks

it was also T-Mobile's fault for not making sure that experian was actually safe from attacks
that's ridiculous

that's ridiculous
It's a shared blame, no one person or company alone is to blame, really common actually. Usually if you're giving sensitive information (especially social security numbers) to someone you want to make extra sure that it's gonna be safe, and that obviously didn't happen here.