T-Mobile is under fire again for its data breach in 2021

T-Mobile is being sued again by the state of Washington over a 2021 data breach that exposed sensitive information of more than 79 million people. Edge Reports. the lawsuit The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that T-Mobile knew about various vulnerabilities in its systems for years but took no action. As a result, the pirates were able to T-Mobile breach in March 2021 and was not discovered until August of the same year when an “anonymous cybersecurity threat intelligence company” told T-Mobile what was happening.

In addition to alleging that T-Mobile was aware of these flaws and took inadequate action to fix them, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson also alleges that T-Mobile’s notifications to customers affected by the breach were inadequate and misleading. The text messages were brief and did not reveal the full scope of the breach, only telling customers that debit and credit card information had not been disclosed while failing to mention their Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information had been compromised.

Among the victims of the hack were two million Washington residents. Information from T-Mobile’s databases was later posted on the dark web for sale to the highest bidder. T-Mobile even supposedly Hired a third party To purchase exclusive access to the data.

In more senses than one, this isn’t T-Mobile’s first rodeo. The company was already File a lawsuit against By A.G. Ferguson over a decade ago due to “deceptive” advertising. It has also been a target for hacking since 2021, specifically 2024.”Salt hurricane“Attacks on commercial carriers. T-Mobile claims that its systems and data were not significantly affected.