Security News > 2021 > August > T-Mobile says hackers stole records belonging to 48.6 million individuals
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.
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.
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T-Mobile partially confirmed the claims of a threat actor who was selling a database allegedly containing the data for approximately 100 million T-Mobile customers, stolen in a massive server breach.
In 2018, info belonging to millions of T-Mobile customers was accessed by hackers.