T-mobile Breach Hits 53 Million Customers as Probe Finds Wider Impact

T-mobile Breach Hits 53 Million Customers as Probe Finds Wider Impact
Pedestrians walk past a T-Mobile store in New York on April 27, 2018. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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T-Mobile US Inc said on Friday an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers, bringing the total number of people affected to more than 53 million.

The third largest U.S. wireless carrier had earlier this week said that personal data of more than 40 million former and prospective customers was stolen along with data from 7.8 million existing T-Mobile wireless customers.