T-Mobile reaches $31.5M breach settlement with FCC

After suffering several breaches, T-Mobile agreed to pay a $15.75 million civil penalty and make a $15.75 million investment to bolster its security over the next two years.

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• Alexander Culafi, Senior News Writer

T-Mobile reached a $31.5 million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission over the telecom giant's handling of multiple data breaches.

Under the settlement, which the FCC announced on Monday, T-Mobile will pay a $15.75 million civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury and is required to "address foundational security flaws" while implementing a zero-trust architecture, network segmentation and MFA.

As part of the settlement, T-Mobile will make a separate $15.75 million security investment to be spent over the next two years. According to the press release, the FCC intends for the investment to "serve as a model for the mobile telecommunications industry."

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