Telecom Account Security Breaches Go Unresolved After Multiple Escalations
A T-Mobile account was compromised via an external hack with unauthorized changes, and despite multiple store visits and calls to the business center, no executive response or account remediation was provided. Carriers lack an effective incident response workflow for account-level security breaches reported by customers.
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