T-Mobile settles with US regulators over repeated data breaches
T-Mobile suffered repeated data breaches over several years. On 30 September 2024, T-Mobile agreed to a settlement totalling $31.5 million to resolve related US Federal Communications Commission investigations and allegations, and pledged to improve its cyber security.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- T-Mobile
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- T-Mobile agreed to a $31.5 million settlement with the US Federal Communications Commission over repeated data breaches.
- It was reported that the settlement included a fine for the data breaches and a commitment to improve cyber security.
- The $31.5 million settlement was covered as resolving investigations into the data breaches.
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