Experian breach hits 15mil T-Mobile customers

Experian, a vendor which processes T-Mobile’s credit applications, has been breached, putting 15 million T-Mobile customers at risk. Innocent users have had personal information such as their name, address, and date of birth exposed to the criminals. In addition, encrypted fields in the hacked databases including “social security number and ID number (such as driver’s license or passport number)” may be at risk. Security experts from Vasco, Tripwire, ESET, Intercede, Cyrptzone and Former FBI Special Agent, Nuix and Lieberman have the following comments. (Read more)