T-Mobile pays $16M fine for three years' worth of data breaches

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.

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.