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Similarly, the company said social security numbers or driver's license information for the additional batch of accounts was not accessed. The mobile carrier said the investigation remains ongoing, but they are confident the access point used by hackers to access their networks has been closed off.

T-Mobile said it is offering support to those impacted by the data breach by offering two years of free identity protection services with McAfee's ID Theft Protection Service, sharing best practices and security steps that can be taken and recommending customers sign up for a free scam-blocking protection. The company also published a customer support landing page with further information on the data breach.

Several companies, such as 7-Eleven , WhatsApp and Fortnite , reported security flaws that could have exposed millions of customers' data, but the extent of the accessed data was not reported.

Here's a look at the biggest data breaches of , as well as tips on how to protect your accounts. In early June, lab-testing company Quest Diagnostics announced that it found a data breach affecting its billing and collections vendor, the American Medical Collection Agency.

The breach exposed the medical, financial and personal information of about That included credit card numbers, bank account information, medical information and Social Security numbers. Just weeks after the breaches were announced, AMCA filed for bankruptcy , citing "enormous expenses" the company racked up notifying customers of the breach and the fact that several of its biggest customers decamped.

Home design website Houzz kicked off the year by informing customers hackers had accessed usernames and encrypted passwords, as well as publicly visible profile information. No financial information was taken, Houzz said, adding that it became aware of the breach in December Capital One announced a massive data breach in late July, reporting that a hacker accessed the information of over million Americans and 6 million Canadians who have applied for credit cards since The company says the applications the hacker accessed were from through early and contained consumers' personal information including names, addresses, zip codes, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.

Bank numbers and Social Security numbers were compromised for roughly , U. Unlike other major hacks, the data accessed during the Capital One breach included sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers.

In February, video messaging app Dubsmash announced that hackers nabbed nearly million users' account holder names, email addresses and hashed passwords. Hashed passwords are encrypted, so they must be cracked before they can be used. What's more, cybersecurity experts who spoke with both Hunt and Motherboard said they tried in vain to reach the company to warn it of the exposed data. Spiral Toys said in an email that it didn't receive emails from Victor Gevers, a cybersecurity researcher who told Motherboard he reached out to the company multiple times.

Gevers sent CNET screenshots of his attempts to reach Spiral Toys via email, which he said bounced back to him, as well as a link to a tweet sent to the company. Spiral Toys didn't respond to questions about the screenshots. Spiral Toys is a publicly traded company that currently has a stock value of 1 cent, leading Hunt to speculate it has shuttered operations.

Hunt found that the data was no longer publicly searchable after January He also said there was compelling evidence the database had been copied by hackers, who then offered to give it back to Spiral Toys for a ransom paid in bitcoins. Hunt detailed two ransom demands. Originally published Feb. Updates, Feb. It could start out as easy as kids trying to impress their peers by writing spyware and showing their friends that they can hack into their video game logins.

This may seem insignificant at first, but some gaming accounts have credit card details allowing users to make gaming purchases. This shows how vulnerable our financial information can be.