Official FCC release: https://www.fcc.gov/document/t-mobile-required-change-busine...
Why the fuck do we have to give out our personal information to any of these big companies if I can't trust that it will ever be safe-guarded? This is just so fucking insane to me to think these companies are just so big that they don't even give a fuck anymore. $16M is equivalent to $1.00 to them.
Our personal information/data should be given HIPAA-level protection enforced by the government. We as consumers should not have to deal with companies who do not compete on securing their customer's data. They should lose a "data protection" license when mishandling it, like a bar losing its liquor license.
What a joke. Why would they stop? The US needs privacy as a right for its citizens. This is so disheartening.
These "breaches" are such a regular occurrence for T-Mobile that one could suppose that they are intentional and that T-Mobile may be getting paid for the data, kinda like a side hustle, where they constantly troll for n00b customers who either haven't been part of a previous breach or who have managed to lay aside their disgust and take the low price deal so they can get pwned again.
If I ran the show I'd bankrupt the company and its management.
Never attribute an unfortunate outcome to incompetence when the possibility exists that it was caused by greed.
If I'm not terrible at my math...
T-Mobile earned $8 billion in 2023. Some division later, that works out to $21,000,000 per day.
They were fined less than one day's income. If I owned that company, increasing IT security would be near the bottom of my list of priorities.