T-Mobile Just Had A Massive Data Breach Exposing Personal Data For Nearly 50 Million People

Customers of the bright pink cell service, listen up.

Names, social security numbers, driver’s licenses including other identification information of just over 40 million former and prospective customers that have applied for T-Mobile credit have been exposed in a recent data breach, according to the cell service company.

The same personal data for about 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers appear to be compromised as well, including 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers, and account PINs, said T-Mobile.

T-Mobile has since reset customer’s pin numbers.

With that being said, phone numbers, account information, PINs, passwords, and financial information from the nearly 50 million records and accounts were not compromised, T-Mobile mentioned.

Metro by T-Mobile, former Sprint prepaid, and Boost customers names and PINs were not exposed either.

Although, additional information from inactive prepaid accounts accessed through prepaid billing files were hacked; however, financial information, credit card numbers, debit information, and Social Security numbers were not listed in the inactive files according to the company.

T-Mobile has decided to offer two free years of identity protection services because of the recent data breach and is recommending that all postpaid customers change their pins.

It was confirmed by T-Mobile of the unauthorized access to “some T-Mobile data” but, T-Mobile says they are confident that they have closed the entry point used to gain access and that the current investigation is still ongoing.