{"id":39940,"date":"2021-09-14T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39940"},"modified":"2021-09-14T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:53:53","slug":"t-mobile-under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39940","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile under the microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) on Tuesday announced that her office is undertaking an investigation into the recent data breach of T-Mobile that affected more than 50 million individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is aimed at understanding if T-Mobile took the proper steps to secure customer data and whether the company has done enough following the breach to respond and notify customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy office is extremely concerned about how this data breach may have put the personal information of Massachusetts consumers at risk,\u201d Healey said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cAs we investigate to understand the full extent of what\u2019s happened, we urge impacted consumers to take the necessary precautions to ensure their information is safe, and to prevent identity theft and fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation comes a month after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qvghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwhsdng_fbddjjhshwdnhdnjyqrs.html?a=&amp;b=42295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qvghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwhsdng_fbddjjhshwdnhdnjyqrs.html?a%3D%26b%3D42295&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631745726002000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFmHUJ5zwZLYUqaxVBlW5nUUc46pg\">T-Mobile disclosed<\/a>\u00a0that the records of at least 40 million prospective and former customers and the data of more than 13 million current customers had been compromised through the use of \u201cbrute force\u201d by an unknown malicious actor in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39941,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940\/revisions\/39941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}