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TracFone to pay $16m to settle investigation of data protection failures

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The Verizon owned company failed to keep customer data safe during three breaches.

TracFone Wireless has agreed to pay $16m to resolve investigations with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over customer protection failures in connection to three data breaches.

The company, a prepay wireless service provider, was found to be failing to protect its customers’ information from unauthorized access via exploitation of application