T-Mobile admits hackers stole customer data in major security breach

In a statement Friday, T-Mobile admitted that hackers have breached its systems and stole customer data, including names, addresses, account numbers, and billing zip codes. The company said that it discovered the security breach on August 20th and immediately shut it down.

According to Motherboard, a company representative said that around three percent of T-Mobile customers may have been affected, meaning around two million accounts. T-Mobile CEO John Legere said on Twitter that it's "always a good idea to regularly change account passwords," and T-Mobile admitted that some encrypted passwords may have been in the data stolen.

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