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Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn't Tell Them, FTC Says

Prison phone company, Global Tel*Link Corp, is accused by the FTC of not properly securing user data and failing to notify affected customers of a breach for nine months.

The breach resulted in personally identifiable information of GTL users being accessed by bad actors, including Social Security numbers and credit card information.

This is not the first time GTL has faced scrutiny, as the FCC previously capped price-per-minute for inmate phone calls in 2015. [ more ]

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The Failure of Data Security Law

Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn't Tell Them, FTC Says

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The Failure of Data Security Law

Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn't Tell Them, FTC Says

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