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A T-Mobile bug in a nightly generation update allowed some consumers to see other users’ personal data today. T-Mobile users who posted on social media said they saw other consumers’ main billing points instead of their own, the incident allegedly lasting about 3 hours. This morning.
Contacted today via Ars, T-Mobile showed the factor and said it was due to a faulty update. “There have been no cyberattacks or breaches at T-Mobile,” a corporate spokesperson said. “This is a transient formula factor similar to a generation upgrade. “”Planned overnight involving limited account data for less than a hundred customers, which was temporarily resolved. “
As The Verge wrote, T-Mobile consumers “reported that they were required to view other users’ account data, adding their existing credit balance, purchase history, credit card information, and home address, when logging into their own T-Mobile account. “.
A subreddit committed to the discussion on T-Mobile has created a mega thread for discussions on the topic. “Last night I didn’t get the data of one or two more people through my account through the app. Apparently went back to the general when I checked this morning,” one user wrote.
Fierce Wireless spoke with a T-Mobile user who saw other people’s personal information. “A source told Fierce Wireless that when he logged into his T-Mobile account, he saw other people’s names, lines, billing history, addresses, call logs and payments. methods,” the news reported.
The current data breach appears to be a minor factor in T-Mobile’s history of data breaches. In addition to this year’s breaches, T-Mobile admitted in 2021 that attackers had stolen private data from approximately 49 million accounts.
But while the existing problem turns out to be minor and was quickly resolved, there’s another explanation for why mobile phone users are wary of T-Mobile’s ability to access their private information.
In the Reddit thread, users expressed considerations about their knowledge and noted that T-Mobile now requires a debit card or a connected bank account to set up automatic bills and take advantage of the company’s autopayment discount. T-Mobile stopped accepting credit cards for automatic bills a few months ago.
“And they need me to attach my bank details to take advantage of automatic payment. That will never happen,” one user wrote.
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