T-Mobile on Friday announced roughly 6 million additional accounts had data swiped in a recent hack, bringing the total number of victims of the breach to more than 55 million.
Some subscriber accounts had names, social security numbers, driver’s license information, addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers accessed, T-Mobile said. The company also found personal information from 667,000 former T-Mobile customers was accessed in the massive breach.
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