BELLEVUE, Wash.—T-Mobile announced that on Aug. 20, the company was hit by hackers who were able to gain access to personal information from roughly two-million customers, including the name, billing zip code, phone number, email address, account number, and account type of users.
According to the company, more sensitive information — financial data, Social Security numbers, and passwords — weren’t compromised in the hack, The Verge reported.
T-Mobile gave a statement on the breach, saying anyone whose data has been stolen either has been or shortly will be notified via a text message.
T-Mobile hasn’t given a concrete number of how many customers have had their information compromised, although in a statement given to Motherboard, a T-Mobile spokesperson noted that the hack affected “about” or “slightly less than” 3% of the carrier’s 77 million customers—which works out to around two million users, The Verge stated.