T-Mobile Breaches Blamed on AI Project in Investor Lawsuit (1)

Sept. 16, 2022, 7:37 PM UTCUpdated: Sept. 16, 2022, 8:03 PM UTC

A T-Mobile US Inc. investor sued its board in Delaware on Friday, claiming the company has faced a streak of costly cyberattacks thanks to a reckless plan by corporate parent Deutsche Telekom AG to centralize data so it can turbocharge its AI and machine learning segments.

The shareholder derivative lawsuit names current and former board members as defendants. It targets a project dubbed “sharing is caring” by the German telecommunications conglomerate, which has allegedly sought to roll out unified data-mining and AI learning architecture across its business divisions.

Although T-Mobile was among the last subsidiaries to join the project, it ...

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