Some T-Mobile prepaid customers had their account information breached

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On Thursday, T-Mobile disclosed a security breach that impacted some of its prepaid customers in the United States.
The company told Bleeping Computer on Thursday that a “small number of customers” were affected by the breach that was discovered earlier this month. According to T-Mobile, customer names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, rate plans, and plan features were all left exposed. More sensitive information like passwords, financial information, or social security numbers were not affected.
“We truly regret that this incident occurred”
T-Mobile told the impacted customers this week that its cybersecurity team “discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access” to their accounts. Shortly after, the…

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