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Earlier this month, the FCC said AT&T had agreed to pay $13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023 that impacted 8.9 million AT&T wireless customers.
In summer 2021, T-Mobile US confirmed that the company had been subject to a data breach. A hacker called John Erin Binns took credit for the release of millions of customer records and the event was a contribution to T-Mobile receiving a fine of $15 million in 2024.
With the number of data breach victims up nearly 500% in 2024, Experian provides six steps to take if your information is compromised.
In a settlement with the United States Federal Trade Commission, Equifax offered affected users settlement funds and free credit monitoring. In February 2020, the United States government indicted members of China's People's Liberation Army for hacking into Equifax and plundering sensitive data as part of a massive heist that also included ...
Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jim Finkle Experian, the world's biggest consumer credit monitoring firm, disclosed Thursday a massive data breach that exposed sensitive personal data of ...
Several consumers filed lawsuits in small-claims court against Equifax due to the breach, while Equifax later came to a $575 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to offer either a cash payment or credit monitoring for those affected by the breach. [52] The data from the breach has yet to be seen on black markets or the dark web ...
If any financial information, such as credit card numbers, was leaked in a data breach, request a freeze on your credit by the top three credit vendors (TransUnion, Equifax and Experian).
Experian plc is a multinational data broker and consumer credit reporting company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more than 25 million U.S. businesses.