T-Mobile says hackers steal about 7.8 million postpaid customers' personal data

[August 18, 2021]  The company was made aware of the attack late last week, it said in a statement, after an online forum claimed that personal data of its users were leaked.

Pedestrians walk past a T-Mobile store in New York, U.S., April 27, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Data from about 850,000 prepaid customers and more than 40 million records of former or prospective customers were also stolen, T-Mobile said.

The breached data included customers' first and last names, date of birth, social security numbers, and driver's license information, it said, but there was no indication of their financial details being compromised.

The telecom operator had acknowledged the data breach on Monday and said that it was confident the entry point used to access the data had been closed.

(Reporting by Derek Francis in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu and Rashmi Aich)

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