T-Mobile ups compromised customer account total to 55M
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2021-08-20T13:45:00
A “highly sophisticated” cyber-attack illegally accessed nearly 55 million customer records of mobile phone carrier T-Mobile, the largest such attack against the company that has been hit at least four previous times since 2018.
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