T-Mobile data breach hits 53m customers

NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters): T-Mobile US said on Friday that an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers had accessed the personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers, bringing the total number of affected people to more than 53 million.
America's third-largest wireless operator said earlier this week that the personal data of more than 40 million former and potential customers was stolen, along with the data of 7.8 million existing T-Mobile wireless customers.
In its latest update, which comes days after the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched an investigation into the breach, T-Mobile revealed that it had identified 5.3 million subscribers without additional threads that were affected by the breach as well as an additional 667,000 former customer accounts.
The data includes the addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers of customers, the company said, adding that it had no indication that the data it viewed contained financial information such as credit cards or others. payment data.
Some T-Mobile customers sued the company for damages Thursday night in federal court in Seattle, claiming in a proposed class action lawsuit that the cyberattack violated their privacy and put them at a higher risk of fraud and identity theft.
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