Security News > 2021 > August > T-Mobile says hackers stole personal info of 8.6 million customers
T-Mobile has confirmed that attackers who recently breached its servers stole files containing the personal information of over 8.6 million current customers.
The massive breach impacts roughly 7.8 million T-Mobile postpaid customers, 850,000 T-Mobile prepaid users, and approximately 40 million former or prospective ones.
Adding it all up, the attackers stole records belonging to 48.6 million individuals, including current postpaid and prepaid users, as well as former or prospective customers.
"Some of the data accessed did include customers' first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver's license/ID information for a subset of current and former postpay customers and prospective T-Mobile customers."
Luckily, according to the US mobile carrier, the file stolen during the incident did not contain phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information belonging to current or prospective T-Mobile customers.
In 2018, info belonging to millions of T-Mobile customers was accessed by hackers.