Telecommunications giant T-Mobile has issued a warning that following a security breach, personal data of more than 50 million customers has been compromised. The data includes names, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses, US Social Security Numbers, and driver’s license information of customers.
The seller was asking for 6 bitcoin (around $270,000) for a subset of the data containing 30 million Social Security Numbers and driver’s licenses, and said that they were looking to sell the remaining information privately.
T-Mobile said that the data breach affected about 7.8 million current customers and 40 million records of former or prospective customers. Both prepaid and postpaid customers were affected.
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