#EXPERIAN LEAK FREE#

To put its latest $2.43 million fine in perspective, the Un-Carrier reported a net income of $508 million in Q3 of this year. Startlingly, it's T-Mo's fifth acknowledged breach in four years. T-Mobile paid out $550 million to settle that case. Last year, T-Mobile US was attacked again and 77 million customer records were stolen. T-Mobile US to cough up $550m after info stolen on 77m customers.Personal data from Experian on 40% of South Africa's population has been bundled onto a file-sharing website.Experian says it recovered and deleted data on 24 million South Africans after giving it to random 'marketing' person.15 MILLION T-Mobile US customer records swiped by hackers.Despite assurances that the data had been recovered and destroyed, it later showed up online. In 2020, Experian reported it had handed data including PII for 24 million South Africans to another individual who falsely representing themselves in order to gain access. Whether either company has learned from those breaches is unclear, especially in light of subsequent incidents at both companies. T-Mobile US, meanwhile, was told to improve its vendor management oversight and develop a compliance program that ensures third parties with access to customer PII are storing it properly. In addition, the credit bureau's settlement included requirements that it maintain an incident response and data breach notification plan, develop an identity theft prevention program, and do proper due diligence in vetting people with access to data, including reassessing access after an acquisition.Įxperian was also told not to 'misrepresent to its clients the extent to which protects the privacy and security of personal information.'

#EXPERIAN LEAK FREE#

Wrist, meet slapĪlong with startlingly small financial penalties, Experian is being forced to provide an additional five free years of credit monitoring on top of two years it previously awarded in wake of the 2015 breach, as well as two free credit reports annually. T-Mo and Experian notified customers of that attack, and Experian offered free credit reporting services, as is usually the case when a large company has that volume of personally identifiable information stolen. As a result of that attack, the data of 15 million people – including Social Security numbers, other ID numbers, name, address and birthdate – was stolen. This time the attacker managed to gain access to a portion of Experian's network where T-Mobile US stored data used to process customer applications.

In 2015, the consumer credit reporting company was hit again.

Experian leak