FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen

The FCC's updated reporting requirements mean telcos in America will have just seven days to officially disclose that a criminal has broken into their systems. After releasing a proposed rule in early January and giving the industry 30 days to respond, the FCC's final rule was published today. It solidifies what the agency …

[cyberdemon]

Retrospective?

Do they have to disclose incidents that have already occurred? I guess not?

[EricB123]

Re: Retrospective?

Wow, you sound unpatriotic to the telecos!

[Anonymous Coward]

Here a breach, there a breach…

And who’s not getting any sleep, the C.I.E.I.O

[Anonymous Coward]

to little to late

The FCC is corrupt or full of incompetent jacket fillers. They allow telcos to allow number spoofing. That is literally enabling criminals to pretend to be anyone.

There is one answer to if telco have leaked everyone's data, that is yes. Maybe some care how many times, if so - many.

[Alan Brown]

Re: to little to late

Telcos are paid termination revenue - the FTC _can_ become involved (as they originally did with the TCPA) and extend liability on the basis of "follow the money"

[Blackjack]

[Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen]

Mass email to every client with a format that will make it end in the spam folder:

"Estimated Client,

You are using the Internet therefore tour data is likely to have been stolen."

[trindflo]

Great start!

Next go after sim swapping. Get them to do something meaningful before it happens like buzz the phone as well as ring it, flash the screen, make the swapper take a day or two and give them a temporary sim until the delay is over. The carriers can do it; they just need to be strongarmed into making it a priority.

[russmichaels]

telling a company they must do somehting doesn;t mean it is going to happen, and why only telcos?

what about the hundreds of other companies that are being hacked on a daily basis but do not tell their customers that their data is stolen and many don't even know they have been hacked.

I am constantly find compromised details on the dark web, and when I contact the company they had no idea.