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Re:T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Data by rm999 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:39PM (#17860305)
T-mobile is horrible with security. They have this service called Digits, which lets users access their phone number from other devices. The problem is, this subverts the security model a lot of the American internet ecosystem is built on, i.e. your phone number will be secure online. Someone got into my t-mobile account and enabled Digits, then had free-reign on my gmail, texts, paypal, etc (I don't use the strongest passwords, but always keep 2-factor authentication on important services like these). Every time I got hacked I'd spend a couple hours of trying to figure out how, and the T-mobile agents would always claim no one accessed my number. Finally, the third time, I escalated up the security chain within T-mobile and they figured out the issue.

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/t-mobile-digits

Re:T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Data by MrEfficiency on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:45PM (#17860366)
Not to mention digits SUCKS.

My wife used this for her business since it was free at the time. It cost her literally thousands of dollars of missed/unconnected calls and dozens of hours of customer service.

Re:T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Data by r00fus on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:47AM (#17865713)
Is there any way to turn off Digits?