Over $16 million in settlements have been collected by multiple state attorneys general from the consumer credit reporting company Experian following the 2015 data breach of T-Mobile.
The data breach occurred when Experian was hacked in September 2015, according to a release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The breach gave the hacker access to the personal information of T-Mobile customers since the cellphone carrier is a client of Experian.
That information included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and identification numbers — such as driver’s license and passport numbers — all of which T-Mobile used to make credit assessments for people who applied for postpaid services and device financing from September 2013 to September 2015.