Freedom Mobile warns that it suffered a data breach earlier this year, resulting in hackers accessing a “limited number” of customers’ personal information.

In a notice published on Freedom’s website , the carrier said it detected “unauthorized activity on [its] customer account management platform” on October 23, though it did not disclose exactly how many customers were impacted.

“Our investigation revealed that a third party used the account of a subcontractor to gain access to the personal information of a limited number of our customers. We quickly identified the incident and implemented corrective measures and security enhancements, including blocking the suspicious accounts and corresponding IP addresses,” the company explained in the notice.

Freedom stressed that neither payment

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