Verge Technologies Inc.’s Post

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What about us T-Mobile customers? It was our data that was taken, and it is us that could be negatively impacted for years and years. Free credit monitoring doesn't make up for it. Most want to freeze your credit if you sign up for the 'monitoring' in which case you have to jump through hoops to unfreeze if you want to buy something requiring a credit check. I've seen where unfreezing could take up to 3 business days. Giving us cell service for free for a year or more, or a settlement with us customers would be better. We can monitor our own credit or contact the bureaus ourselves to lock/freeze credit. Again, What about us?!?

I've been a T-Mobile customer since they were Voicestream and happen to work in IT. I begged for years for MFA. It was soooooo obvious even from an end- user perspective that security was not up to par. $31m is not enough IMO. Even today, I'm not confident they don't still need an entire cyber security overhaul.

That explains why they are locked down. We are T-Mobile Business Partners and have to jump through hoops every time we place an order for a client or call customer service. I appreciate their efforts but wish there was a better way to verify an account without making the client go to such great lengths to create and access their online portal. There is too much separation of duties and inability to speak on behalf of our clients.

What if the backdoor is a weak password inside the company and was already hacked into or data left unsecured on a 3rd party cloud storage?? You can spend on Cybersecurity but you need to train your employees first on security.

I wonder what new fake fee they will add to the bill to make up for that 32 million, I notice how these companies are never held accountable to the consumers they are supporting. It's getting insane, in the last 6 months my data has been leaked in 7 different incidents at no fault of my own. What happens 4 years from now when someone uses that information to buy houses and cars against my name. Why are all these companies never held accountable, it's so crazy, they will literally let someone die over a safety issue vs addressing it because it's cheaper to pay a settlement then it is to address the issue. Oh don't get me started on the class action, I could lose 10s of thousands of dollars only to get back $7.50 as my part of a class action, why do we allow companies to be more profitable doing illegal acts. We need to up the penalty for this stuff so it has some real teeth. I for one am sick and tired of these big companies playing with our lives and livelihood, when is enough enough?

Where does the money collected for fines go? Should it go to the customers that were affected? Where should it go?

Way to many organizations have a way to lazy attitude towards cyber security.   With the constant daily feeds of the latest breach, organizations can no longer afford to ignore the problem, "we're to busy doing important stuff. And IT is just a lot of nerdy geeks with no people skills, crying wolf." Until all organizations seriously spend the resources to secure their networks, and keep it that way, or be held accountable legally and financially, it will keep happening over and over again.   The latest being Stop & Shop/Hannafords network being taken down by an intrusion into their system, ostensibly ransomware, crashing the stores ability to replenish inventory over 2 weeks before Thanksgiving. Because one of 5 or a combination of: 1. The executive suite couldn't be bothered to acquire the resources to secure the network. Because it will affect their stock value. 2. IT management couldn't bothered to address the issue. Because "we're to busy doing other stuff." 3. Nobody asks the critically important question " This is a potential threat. Why are we doing this?" 4.Their Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plan is non existent or hasn't been updated in years. 5. Though updated and tested, nobody followed the DR/BC plan  

Does it really even matter anymore nowadays? I’ve been getting notices regarding my credit for years that passwords have been exposed in addition to user names, addresses and phone #’s being public on people sesrch engines, and now (due to the National Public Data) my SSN was exposed which caused me to have to lock my credit bureaus down. It’s only a matter of time before the credit bureaus are breached. This stuff is literally a dark web search away for anyone to find and there’s still no government regulation holding these companies even remotely accountable. There needs to be some serious, very heavy yet simple regulation that gives Americans true privacy rights and severely punishes companies to the extent that it makes it make much more sense to invest $50 into security rather than paying $1B in fines. Now that’s real consequences. They made a net income of $2.92 billion in Q2. Fine them a billion and make it stick. Now you’re making a company think twice before they’re willing to cut corners IMHO.

It’s unfortunate that they had individual calls to their employees that if they don’t make a decision by Monday to come into the office (after they were approved to be 100 percent remote and no where near the office) they would let them go. It makes you wonder if this was based due to this situation.