PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) – Washington Attorney General – and Governor-elect – Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile on Monday, claiming security failures by the company led to a “massive” data breach.
The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court, alleges that T-Mobile knew about certain cybersecurity vulnerabilities for years, but did not do enough to address them.
Additionally, Ferguson argues that the company misrepresented how the company prioritizes the personal data it collects, and that T-Mobile failed to properly notify Washingtonians who were impacted by the breach by “downplaying its severity and sending notices to affected consumers that did not disclose all the information that had been compromised,” the Attorney General’s Office said.
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“This significant data breach was entirely avoidable,” Ferguson said in a statement. “T-Mobile had years to fix key vulnerabilities in its cybersecurity systems — and it failed.”…