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A data breach has been verified by Google Fi, the company that runs Google's mobile network, and it's likely connected to the recent security failure at T-Mobile that allowed hackers to obtain the personal information of millions of users. The principal network provider for Google Fi recently alerted the firm that there had been suspicious behavior pertaining to a third-party support system storing a "small quantity" of Google Fi customer data, according to an email issued to consumers on Monday and obtained by TechCrunch. The timing of the alert and the fact that Google Fi uses T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular to connect to the internet raise the possibility that the breach is related to the most recent T-Mobile hack read the complete article Google Fi says hackers accessed customers inf...

T-Mobile disclosed that a hacker gained access to a treasure trove of personal information belonging to 37 million users in a financial statement on Thursday. The telecommunications behemoth claimed that the data theft began on November 25 and that the "bad actor" stole "name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number, information such as the number of lines on the account and plan features." T-Mobile claimed in the SEC filing that it discovered the breach on January 5—more than a month after it occurred—and that a day later it had addressed the issue of the hacker taking advantage of it. According to T-Mobile, the hackers misused an application programming interface (API) rather than breaking into any business system read more T-Mobile says hac...

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Google Fi says hackers accessed customer’s information

T-Mobile says hacker accessed personal data of 37 million customers