US fines telcos $200M for sharing customer location data without consent
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they’ll appeal the fines imposed by the FCC for sharing customer location data.
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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they’ll appeal the fines imposed by the FCC for sharing customer location data.
The mobile company states that the issue was due to a glitch that occurred in an update.
Thousands of TracFone users are encountering issues with their phone numbers. Malicious actors transfer the accounts to different carriers without the users' consent. Straight Talk and Total Wireless subscribers are also affected by this data breach. Fortunately, TracFone seems aware of the issue.
Customers of Verizon-owned TracFone saw their numbers transferred to different carriers without their consent in recent weeks. The company said in a notice on its website that external attackers were responsible.