T-Mobile settles to pay $350M to customers in data breach
Source: AP
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
NEW YORK (AP) T- Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to customers affected by a class action lawsuit filed after the company disclosed last August that personal data like social security numbers had been stolen in a cyberattack.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday, the mobile phone company said the funds would pay for claims by class members, the legal fees of plaintiffs counsel and the costs of administering the settlement. It also said it would spend $150 million next year and in 2023 to fortify its data security and other technologies.
T-Mobile said the settlement contains no admission of liability, wrongdoing or responsibility by any of the defendants.
The company said that it expects court approval of the terms of the settlement as early as December 2022.

FILE - This photo taken Thursday, July 27, 2017, shows T Mobile sign at a store in Hialeah, Fla. T- Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million, Friday, July 22, 2022, to customers affected by a class action lawsuit filed after the company disclosed last August that personal data like social security numbers had been stolen in a cyberattack.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
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Marta and I have T mobile. We joined in June, so we're not in this.
BumRushDaShow
(166,095 posts)so this was definitely news to me too!
peacebuzzard
(5,799 posts)And have been a customer for over 12 years.
I never knew about the compromised data breach. Thanks, i will ck into this further thanks Omaha Steve
C Moon
(13,490 posts)smb
(3,598 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,240 posts)That's why these data breaches happen...and will continue to happen. It's cheaper for these companies to pay the minuscule penalties after the fact than to pay for the security to stop them in the first place.