T-Mobile Hit With Class Action Suits After Consumer Data Breach

T-Mobile USA Inc. was hit with a pair of class action lawsuits in Washington federal court accusing the telecommunications company of violating the California Consumer Privacy Act.

T-Mobile violated the CCPA and acted negligently by failing to protect consumer data from a recent data breach that exposed millions of customers’ records, the plaintiffs alleged in their complaints, which were both filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

T-Mobile didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the lawsuits.

The telecom giant suffered a data breach revealed earlier this month that compromised millions of ...