T-Mobile Says a Data Breach Is Affecting Millions of Its Customers. Here’s What You Need to Know

Hackers stole the personal information of around 2 million T-Mobile customers in a data breach this week, the wireless carrier says.

Alerting impacted customers with text message notifications, T-Mobile says hackers accessed the names, billing zip codes, phone numbers, email addresses, account numbers and the account types of some customers in a breach on Aug. 20.