In a press release, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused Global Tel*Link Corp - which, hilariously, uses GTL as an acronym - and two of its subsidiaries of failing to "implement adequate security safeguards to protect personal information" of its 650,000-odd users, which led, as these things so often do, to bad actors breaching its data banks.
Because there was such a lag between the hack and any kind of communication on GTL's part, its users began reporting just a few months after the August 2020 breach that their personally identifiable information had turned up on the dark web, the FTC explained.
Back in 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) capped the price-per-minute for inmate phone calls at 11 cents - a slap in the face of sorts to GTL and other companies, which charged imprisoned folks upwards of $14 per minute to make phone
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