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T-Mobile promises to try not to get hacked again

A $15.75 million promise.

The FCC press release says, “...these investigations developed evidence that the breaches that occurred, which affected millions of cell phone customers, were varied in their nature, exploitations, and apparent methods of attack.” T-Mobile recently paid a $60 million penalty for failing to report incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive data, which violated its national security agreement upon acquiring Sprint. Abuse of authentication methods, for example through the leakage, theft, or deliberate sale of credentials, is the number one way that breaches and ransomware attacks begin.

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