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The announcement is not especially clear to consumers in some places, and does not explicitly link which types of information were included in which subset of stolen data. But people applying for credit, such as the 40 million former or prospective customers who did so, typically provide their SSN. T-Mobile did not immediately respond to a request to clarify which data was exposed from each group. In an underground forum post, the hacker earlier offered to sell 30 million SSNs for around $270,000; they claimed to have data on 100 million people in all.Do you work at T-Mobile and know anything else about this breach? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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