T-Mobile is back with another data breach.
After only a few months of 37 million customers(Opens in a new tab) In the event that their data was compromised in a major breach, T-Mobile suffered another breach, though this breach is much smaller, according to BleepingComputer.(Opens in a new tab). In a letter to customers, T-Mobile revealed that a total of 836 customers were affected by a breach that occurred between February and March of this year.
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While to a few people this may sound reassuring, the data that was compromised could cause some significant damage.
Everything from name and contact information to Social Security numbers and birthdates can be included in the breach. Sure, it’s great that fewer than 1,000 people were affected, but that would be cold comfort for anyone who now has to protect themselves from identity theft.
In fairness to T-Mobile, the “un-carrier” is helping out. Anyone affected by this breach gets two years free of identity theft protection and credit monitoring via Transunion myTrueIdentity(Opens in a new tab).