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more hacks to deal with this time from a credit bureau it's a good time to be in the identity theft business I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update hackers have stolen personal information of 15 million t-mobile customers and that includes anyone who just applied to sign up for t-mobile service between September 2013 and this year it's not t-mobile that's to blame here the hackers got the data by breaking into Experian a major credit bureau that t-mobile uses to conduct credit checks for customers needless to say t-mobile CEO John ledger is angry with Experian and he said so in a blog post the hackers made off with a treasure trove of personal info to conduct identity theft they have names addresses birthdays Social Security numbers and even driver's license and passport numbers this isn't the first time experience has been in hot water for not keeping your data safe in 2013 it was uncovered that experience sold personal data to criminals a group of ID thieves and fraudsters in Vietnam if you can't trust a major credit bureau to keep data safe then maybe they shouldn't be one of the three bureaus entrusted with this sensitive info to make up for the t-mobile hack Experian is offering free credit monitoring and ID protection but you need to give them more information about yourself it's insanity 15 is a hot number in hacking this week we go from 15 million t-mobile customers to 15 gigabytes of personal user data stolen from the crowdfunding website patreon the website is a place where you can be a patron and donate a few bucks a month to people who create things you enjoy such as artists video editors and podcasters and some are offering gifts as incentive for you to donate more money patreon announced the hack in a blog post saying that the breach involved names emails and some shipping and billing addresses no credit card numbers were compromised the data stolen has been dumped online to various sites and so far about 2.3 million unique emails have been discovered in that data dump as with any hack it's good to change your password as an extra precaution but that's not all a bad Android bug is back in the news it's called stage fright 2.0 and essentially it deal the weak spot in the Android operating system a hacker can steal data from your phone if you visit the wrong website it involves sneaking bad code into a music or movie file and if the file is on a website and your phone previews it to play it you're infected we first heard about this flaw in April but the security group does imperium found the problem is broader than originally thought every Android device is at risk of this glitch but patching can be a problem not every Android phone gets a software update and when they do it can take a long time Google has said it will issue a patch to the Nexus users on Monday that's it for this tech news update and for more head to cnet.com and stay safe out there folks from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey