Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/22/1747216/trump-mobile-exposed-customers-personal-data-including-phone-numbers-and-home-addresses
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/trump-mobile-confirms-it-exposed-customers-personal-data-including-phone-numbers-and-home-addresses/
> Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told TechCrunch that the company is investigating the exposure and has not found evidence that content or financial information spilled online. The company said there was no breach of Trump Mobile's network, systems, or infrastructure. Walker said that the exposure was linked to a third-party platform provider that supports "certain Trump Mobile operations." He did not name the provider.
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> [...] On Wednesday, two YouTubers who ordered Trump Mobile's phone said a researcher alerted them that their personal information was exposed online. The YouTubers [2]Coffeezilla and [3]penguinz0 said they tried to alert Trump Mobile of the exposure after the researcher also tried but to no avail. Walker said Trump Mobile is evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data.
Further reading: [4]Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/trump-mobile-confirms-it-exposed-customers-personal-data-including-phone-numbers-and-home-addresses/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voxXDDq58Bk
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TwGH1B5wA
[4] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/05/16/0258209/trump-phones-start-shipping---but-were-there-really-600000-preorders
Trump Mobile... (Score:2)
...for a moment I was thinking about something like [1]Bat Mobile [wikipedia.org].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batmobile
Re: (Score:2)
That's strange. When I hear "Trump Mobile" I think of something [1]completely different [parents.com].
=Smidge=
[1] https://www.parents.com/best-baby-mobile-8612918
Shocking (Score:2)
You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Water is wet, and goes down-hill. Trump founded a business riddled with incompetence.
Life's riddled with invariants like these.
How many notifications, exactly? (Score:2)
The only news here is that there are trump mobile customers
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> The only news here is that there are trump mobile customers
More pointedly, the leak revealed that there are only about 30,000 orders from the 600,000 preorders previously claimed. Doesn't necessarily mean they were lying, but that would be only a 5% conversion/purchase rate. Maybe die-hard Trump fans actually got tired of waiting or maybe it was all smoke and mirrors - hmm....
[1]Trump Mobile has exposed customers' personal data... [engadget.com]:
> Truth Social once crowed about having nearly 600,000 preorders. However, the aforementioned leak suggests that only 30,000 people actually turned a preorder into an actual order.
[1] https://www.engadget.com/2179503/trump-mobile-has-exposed-customer-personal-data-including-home-addresses-and-phone-numbers/
Re: (Score:2)
...and yet still better than the Cybertruck conversion rate, a vehicle that plenty here claimed would be the greatest thing ever. Not sure which is worse, but then Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley.
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> ...and yet still better than the Cybertruck conversion rate, a vehicle that plenty here claimed would be the greatest thing ever. Not sure which is worse, but then Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley.
In recent there's a sucker born every minute Cybertruck news... [1]Cybertruck plunged into lake for 'Wade Mode' test, driver arrested [usatoday.com]
> "The driver stated he intentionally drove into the lake to use the Cybertruck’s 'Wade Mode' feature," police said, adding the vehicle "became disabled and took on water."
> While the driver and passengers "abandoned the vehicle," according to police, Grapevine firefighters removed the truck from the lake.
> The driver was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle in a closed section of the park and lake, as well as multiple violations of water safety equipment regulations.
He-he :-)
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/20/tesla-cybertruck-wade-mode-arrest-grapvine-lake-texas/90174937007/
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The Cybertruck was delayed for years and the price (initial) was two to two and a half times what was discussed when Tesla started taking reservations.
The Trump Phone was delayed, but AFAIK the price didn't creep up.
Like you, not sure which was worse.
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> More pointedly, the leak revealed that there are only about 30,000 orders from the 600,000 preorders previously claimed. Doesn't necessarily mean they were lying, but that would be only a 5% conversion/purchase rate.
There are Pre-Orders, then there are Actual Orders, then there are the number of Orders that were leaked by the third-party (Leaked Orders)
Pre-orders > Actual Orders > Leaked Orders
There is no reason to assume that every Actual Order was leaked by the third-party. - it might be, but the report doesn't support that conclusion.
Honestly (Score:2)
If you bought into that, you kinda deserve it.
Re: Honestly (Score:2)
This is a list of the bottom-tier dumbest MAGAts in America. Hopefully they take notice when his incompetence becomes relevant to their lives.
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You think SuperKendall bought one? I doubt it, but maybe his dad did for him.
"Hopefully they take notice when his incompetence becomes relevant to their lives."
His personal enrichment is their lives.
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They won't take notice. They cannot believe the incompetence because that would mean denying the last 5 (at least) years of their beliefs. And all their Bunko Buddies would disown them if they uttered a word against el Bunko. It is their reward system and they are quite happy with it.
Stop contradicting yourself! (Score:1)
You can't say in the headline that one company was at fault and then start the summary by saying it was a different company altogether.
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> You can't say in the headline that one company was at fault and then start the summary by saying it was a different company altogether.
Oh, hello, you must be new here - welcome to slashdot!
Anything that remotely involves Trump, Bezos, Gates, Amazon, Microsoft, or Windows will be blamed on Trump, Bezos, Gates, Amazon, Microsoft, or Windows, no matter who actually is to blame/caused the issue.
Re: Stop contradicting yourself! (Score:5, Informative)
There is no contradiction. Trump Mobile hired a cheap third party incapable of doing the work properly and failed to ensure that the work was adequate. That does not absolve them of blame, that places the blame squarely on Trump Mobile.
In future news ... (Score:2)
> third-party platform exposed [Trump Mobile] customers' personal data to the open internet.
Modeling off his $10B IRS tax return leak suit, Trump sues that third party for $100 Billion. /s
Oh, and here's a fun thing to try (Score:2)
Search /. for "exposed customer's" and see how many of those articles BeauHD has posted. Then look at how very, very differently the headlines are written in comparison to this one. Even when the relevant company is directly at fault.
When I was a kid... (Score:1)
> Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses
When I was a kid, we called that a [1]Phone Book [merriam-webster.com], now it's "Exposing Customer Data"? OK, whatever.
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20book
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But the phone book did not list one's political affiliation.
How awful (Score:5, Funny)
Why would Obama do something like this?
Humiliation fetishists (Score:4, Insightful)
At this point I have zero sympathy for any suckers roped into this, with the possible exception of journalists who bought want to document the predictable.
You've had a decade to learn that everything Piggy touches turns to shit, that he cares about other people in the same way I care about food on my plate, that the only constant is his greed and fuck you.
I was willing to believe some of the slower, oblivious or brainwashed folks were suckers for a while; I probably persisted in that for too long because that includes some family members.
But anyone still licking Piggy's asshole in 2026 deserves every humiliation they get.
I think I lost sympathy at least 15 years ago (Score:2)
But these fuckers are still dragging me and my family down with them.
Their reckless political choices and their obsession with culture War bullshit combined with the fact that most of them are boomers and older Gen x that receive shitloads of socialism from the New deal and Great society so they are all in on I got mine fuck you means that they have been able to indulge their worst impulses and get away with it pretty much their entire lives.
For the longest time I thought that they'd get away with it a
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Hunter Biden put him up to it.