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T-Mobile investigating report of customer data breach that reportedly involves 100 million people

The Verge

T Mobile may have suffered a customer data breach | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. T-Mobile confirmed Sunday that it’s looking into an online forum post that claims to be selling a large trove of its customers’ sensitive data. After reviewing samples of the data, Motherboard reported it appeared authentic. “We

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T-Mobile CEO calls latest data breach ‘humbling,’ claims it’s committed to security

The Verge

A recent T-Mobile data breach coughed up the information of more than 50 million people , including some who aren’t current customers or never were. This is T-Mobile’s fifth incident in four years. That includes this one, two in 2020 , plus one each for 2018 and 2019.

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Some T-Mobile customers’ call records may have been accessed in a recent breach

The Verge

T-Mobile suffered a security breach in December that may have exposed call-related information and phone numbers for some of its customers. T-Mobile said in a statement emailed to The Verge that it had notified “less than 0.2 T-Mobile says it “identified this attack in early December and quickly shut down the incident.”

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Google Plus is officially gone after its mobile apps are rebranded as Google Currents

The Verge

Google Plus, the company’s failed social network, is officially gone as of today. After Google Plus personal accounts were shut down last year , Google announced that it would be replacing the social network for enterprise users with Google Currents. Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge.

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T-Mobile: ‘We Know How the Hacker Did It’

SecureWorld News

We have new information on the T-Mobile data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of customers just a couple weeks ago. The personal information includes name, address, date of birth, driver's license information, and Social Security numbers. T-Mobile data breach details.

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Z2 vets raise $5M to grow Seattle studio Starform and launch social games

GeekWire

Its unannounced first project, a team-based 5v5 arena game for PC and mobile, is currently in a closed beta. Starform was founded in 2018 by Lou Fasulo, Taylor Daynes, Josh Rosen, and Jason English, all of whom formerly worked at the Seattle-based mobile studio Z2 before its acquisition by King in 2015.

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Social TV platform Scener adds Hulu’s David Baron as CEO and filmmaker J.J. Abrams as investor

GeekWire

Scener , the Seattle-based startup that adds a social layer to the viewing of streaming television content, has named David Baron as CEO. Scener was spun out of RealNetworks in 2018 and raised $2.1 “Consumers are now demanding both simplicity and social connection in their viewing experiences. David Baron, CEO at Scener.

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