From PC Mag: T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $60 million fine over alleged national security violations, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US shared this week.
"T-Mobile failed to take appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access to certain sensitive data and failed to report some incidents of unauthorized access promptly," the committee says. "These violations resulted in harm to the national security equities of the United States."
The unauthorized access occurred in 2020 and 2021 when T-Mobile merged with Sprint, though the committee didn't notify T-Mobile of its plans to penalize the wireless carrier until last year. While the committee and T-Mobile haven't specified what data was accessed and who obtained it, T-Mobile says it wasn't a data breach or a hack.
"We experienced technical issues during our post-merger integration with Sprint that affected information shared from a small number of law enforcement information requests out of the hundreds of thousands that we process each year," a T-Mobile representative tells PCMag via email. "This was not a breach or intrusion, and no bad actor was involved."
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