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Cyber corner: ‘Groundbreaking’ FCC settlement, CISO comp, NIST’s new password rules

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Julie DiMauro

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Including news of T-Mobile’s $31.5m settlement to resolve an FCC probe into data breaches that affected tens of millions of US consumers.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reached a settlement with T-Mobile in connection with multiple data breaches between 2021 and 2023 at the mobile carrier and broadband provider, the agency said in a consent order.

The FCC called its settlement “groundbreaking” for having ordered the company to make a $15.75m investment in its

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