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Today, T-Mobile's CEO Mike Sievert said that the hackers behind the carrier's latest massive data breach were able to brute force their way through T-Mobile's network after gaining access to testing environments. In 2018, info belonging to millions of T-Mobile customers was accessed by hackers.

Seems that 47 million customers were affected. Surprising no one, T-Mobile had awful security. I’ve lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked.

The T-Mobile data breach keeps getting worse as an update to their investigation now reveals that cyberattack exposed over 54 million individuals' data. The hacker said that the stolen database contains the data for approximately 100 million T-Mobile customers.

In response to a breach that compromised the personal data of millions of subscribers, T-Mobile customers should change their password and PIN and set up two-step verification. A cyberattack against T-Mobile has resulted in the theft and compromise of certain personal data of almost 50 million people.

You know, another fresh look at patching to make sure that there isn't, you know, as little porous of a situation as there can be. Jennifer Bisceglie: To me, I think to your point, is it different servers, different containers? There's lots of different technologies that, you know, can separate these things.

A cyberattack against T-Mobile has compromised the personal information of almost 50 million people, according to the carrier. In an update posted on Tuesday, the company said that certain customer data had been accessed and stolen by unauthorized individuals and that the data did include some personal information for a wide range of customers.

As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile's servers and is selling a portion of it on an underground forum for 6 bitcoin, about $280,000. The trove includes not only names, phone numbers, and physical addresses but also more sensitive data like social security numbers, driver's license information, and IMEI numbers, unique identifiers tied to each mobile device.

On Tuesday, it disclosed further details on the data breach in a post on its website, saying that the breach affects as many as 7.8 million postpaid subscribers, 850,000 prepaid customers and "Just over" 40 million past or prospective customers who've applied for credit with T-Mobile. Compromised payment data may not have shown up in T-Mobile's investigation, but personal information did: As of 01:54 Wednesday morning, T-Mobile had ascertained that the ripped-off data included customers' first and last names, date of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver's license/ID information "For a subset of current and former postpay customers and prospective T-Mobile customers."

T-Mobile warned Monday that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver's license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. On Monday evening, T-Mobile said a "Highly sophisticated" attack against its network led to the breach of data on millions of customers.

T-Mobile US has begun admitting to the theft of 100 million user accounts in stages, confessing overnight that 8 million people's personal details had been stolen from its servers. In a statement the American mobile operator said: "Yesterday, we were able to verify that a subset of T-Mobile data had been accessed by unauthorized individuals. We also began coordination with law enforcement as our forensic investigation continued."