When we first learned of the Experian data breach a couple of days ago, Experian said that “there is no evidence that the data has been used inappropriately.” However, that might change soon. Irish fraud prevention company Trustev claims that information obtained from the Experian breach — which includes data of consumers that had their credit checked by T-Mobile — may be up for sale … [read full article]
UPDATE: If you’d prefer to not use the Protect My ID credit monitoring service, which is a part of Experian, John Legere says that there will be another option “by tomorrow.” One of the big features of T-Mobile are its installment plans and JUMP! On Demand program, which let you pay as little as $0 down … [read full article]
2013 was not a great year for personal security. Whether it’s Snapchat or the NSA’s shenanigans, there have been more reports of account hacking than we’ve seen in a long time. Even Apple’s own developer account was shut down for a couple of weeks due to a security breach. It seems T-Mobile customers may have had their personal information compromised too. DataBreaches.net has uncovered a letter that’s due to be sent out to … [read full article]
