T-Mobile US had 100 million user accounts compromised. I think this is about the millionth time I’ve heard of a major company getting personal data about customers (you know, the little people) stolen.

I’ve got some personal skin in the game on this one as I’m a T-Mobile customer. I’m not to pleased that I’ve read about this in many places online but have yet to be contacted directly by T-Mobile telling me what is going on. That is definitely not the way to handle something like this.

I’m of the opinion that there needs to be significant sanctions applied to companies that compromise customer personal information whether indavertently or due to bad actors. Provisioning the near worthless McAfee ID protection doesn’t cut it. Instead, they should be forced to directly rebate to their customers some non-trivial amount in the form of cash. The way it is now, these breaches are treated as a cost of doing business which isn’t fair to the customers who placed their trust with these companies.