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  • 2022-10-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Is the Kroll Settlement Administration LLC Text Message a Scam or Legit? (en)
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  • In late October 2022, we received inquiries from readers who asked if a text message from Kroll Settlement Administration LLC about a 2021 T-Mobile data breach was a scam or legit. We can confirm that a message directing recipients to the URL t-mobilesettlement.com was a legitimate notification. The message appeared like this: This text was sent out beginning around Oct. 20 and read as follows: A Twitter user asked the official and verified T-Mobile account @TMobileHelp about the text message: In response, T-Mobile answered, Yes, this is the proposed, agreed upon settlement for the consumer class action filing related to the criminal attack of our systems we experienced in August 2021. Readers may be wondering what this criminal attack was all about. According to The New York Times, it was announced on July 22 that T-Mobile had reached a $500 million settlement for a data breach that hit the company in August 2021: As the Times said, the amount of money individuals would receive in the settlement was unclear. This appeared to depend upon the number of people who would file to receive a check. Just as an example, if 50 percent of the 76.6 million people who were affected received a payment from the $350 million fund, that would mean each person would only receive around $9. The Times published that lawyers for the wireless carrier said the settlement did not mean the company was acknowledging any wrongdoing, but rather that these sorts of data breaches had frequently occurred for a number of companies in the tech, banking and retail industries in recent years. Note: T-Mobile also released a statement following the July court filing, explaining that the company had, in its words, doubled down on its cybersecurity following the data breach. (en)
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