T–Mobile has admitted that tens of millions of current and former customers were affected by the data breach that occurred over the weekend.
According to CNN Business, 7.8 million postpaid subscribers, 850,000 prepaid subscribers, and more than 40 million past or prospective customers have leaked their personal data to hackers.
While the cellular phone giant claims that no financial information appears to have been compromised, the stolen data did include names, birthdates, and social security numbers for a “subset of current and former postpay customers and prospective T-mobile customers.”
T-Mobile (which recently merged with Sprint) recommends all post-paid customers change their PINs to protect their accounts after the 850,000 prepaid customers’ PINs were compromised.
The company is offering two years of free credit monitoring to all affected customers.
