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Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The mint for desktop is much better than the mint for mobile

[–] chili1553@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I use Arch, btw

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When the merger was first announced, my friend sent me a link to the Ryan Reynolds video of the announcement. I sent back, "cute vid. I sense a breach in our future lol"

I guess that 'lol' wasn't necessary...

[–] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I switched to US Mobile a couple months ago and it has been a much better experience.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hadn’t heard of them. Too bad their plans are complicated.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

I got off mint last month so at the very least they cant port my number off when the number is no longer with them anymore.

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shit. My American Aunt and her family uses T-Mobile Family Plan.

[–] random65837@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

TMO is breached yearly, Mint customers and TMO customers aren't the same thing, Mint is TMO's customer, not the individuals. Not the same databases. In the end, Mint doesn't have half the data on it's customers that actual TMO does on theirs.

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

I thought they meant Linux Mint, the Debian derivative. Very confused until I read the comments.. perhaps I should read the article 😳

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

If I never got the email, does that mean I wasn't effected?

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck but I do have totp already enabled should I just change my password?

Edit: my paranoia got to me I'm gonna just reset my totp seeds and change my password. Some of the info was fake so that'll protect me a bit. Guess that's the best you can do for now

Edit 2: they made it a pain in the ass to change your password apparently now they favor only 20 characters max (rip my 35 character password). A nice warning on their website would've been really helpful

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Edit 2: they made it a pain in the ass to change your password apparently now they favor only 20 characters max (rip my 35 character password).

That just screams they're not storing passwords properly. If you're salt+hashing your passwords, they could throw Hamlet into the password field and the only limit is how big the text entry field can be. The output is a fixed length string, so I put length should be immaterial.