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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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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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100 Million T-Mobile Accounts Potentially Compromised in Data Breach

SecureWorld News

T-Mobile is investigating a post made on an underground forum that claims 100 million user accounts have been compromised in a data breach. The hacker, who spoke with VICE's Motherboard in an online chat, said the data came from T-Mobile USA and involves "full customer info.". Hacker steals millions of T-Mobile users' info.

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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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The new class of CEOs at Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile

The Verge

Over the past decade, the leaders of Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T oversaw a shift from simplistic feature phones into the era of smartphones and streaming. If you “believe that mobile consumption is the future,” Smith says, “which clearly AT&T does, then you’re going to need a channel to deliver.”. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.

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Crypto startup Coinme alleges Coinstar misused trade secrets for competing product at kiosks

GeekWire

based maker of kiosks that turn loose change into cash and gift cards, first partnered with Coinme in 2018 to enable bitcoin purchases at its kiosks. Coinstar later developed its own platform called CINQ that lets consumers use cash to buy crypto at its kiosks and via a mobile app. Coinstar, the Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far better than AVC and HEVC without any of the licensing headaches. 266/VVC makes video transmission in mobile networks (where data capacity is limited) more efficient. VVC promises to use half the data as HEVC to stream a 90-minute 4K video. Through a reduction of data requirements, H.266/VVC

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