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Holy crap: "The incident is the second hack to hit T-Mobile this year. It’s the ninth since 2018, based on reporting by TechCrunch."

Are there companies with a worse track record than this? Seems like they get breached way more than average.

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Go do a year in IR if you want some inside perspective -- and to shave a few years off your existence. Sounds about normal for a large telecommunications firm. These large firms don't have 30+ person IR teams on round the clock shifts distributed worldwide because nothing ever happens. T-Mobile just has some transparency and likely actual monitoring in place to detect these breaches instead of them just floating by until some threat actor sells the data somewhere public.

Keep in mind, these are the ones we know about. I would imagine there could be many, many more. I work for a large health care company. We've had several breaches already this year. None have been made public and users were never notified.

Unless the press or some independent researcher like Krebs digs something up, its often times rare a company will make this stuff public.

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