T-Mobile pays $16 million fine for three years’ worth of data breaches

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T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $15.75 million fine and improve its security in a settlement over a series of data breaches over three years that affected tens of millions of customers.

"T-Mobile suffered data breaches in 2021, 2022, and 2023," the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau said in an order approving a consent decree yesterday. "Combined, these breaches affected millions of current, former, or prospective...