Big data hacks have become common, but that doesn’t make them any less worrisome.
In the latest such incident, T-Mobile (TMUS) – Get a free report It said that information on 37 million of its customers was obtained by a “bad actor.”
The hack was disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, January 19.
The hacker had access to the data for nearly six weeks before it was detected, according to the filing.