this is especially problematic because now hackers have a comprehensive list of the most gullible people on the planet

Hey it's no biggie they are exempt from all rules, norms, and principals. Their customers love it even more when rules are broken so this is more like a bonus for them.

I would not have believed you if you had told me they had the engineering and operations talent to prevent personal data leaks, among many other things.

Given the facts of who it is that's impacted, isn't this the first good thing the administration has done?

Has anyone yet seen one of those phones? Was it a honeypot all along? (A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield)

Edit0: they seem to exist and they have a headphone jack? Incredible.

Coffeezilla bought one of these thinking they’d never be delivered about a week before they announced they would be shipping soon. He wanted to do an exposé on the delays and thought Trump would never release the phone He will now end up with a crappy phone and his personal info exposed

"Walker said Trump Mobile is evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data."

It was confirmed home/payment addresses were leaked, how is that not worthy of notification?

They must have hired the same developers as every other mobile operator.

My grandpa is almost 80 years old. He blatantly complains about stuff he doesn't understand but because he was once a big shot he think he does. He takes decisions almost as random as a 20 side dice but the numbers are just options and have no correlation among each other. Eventually he does something that seems to make sense, but if you live enough time with him you'll see that's by chance.

Right up there with the rest or telco.

I'm surprised that the idea for the Trump Phone was even conceived. I had thought that the drug king-pin Pablo Escobar pretty much owned the market for gold smartphones, and thus tainted it for anyone else.

> The company said there was no breach of Trump Mobile’s network, systems, or infrastructure.

Wait... what?

"I didn't lose your money because somebody broke into my house -- I only lost it because I left it sitting on the sidewalk. My house is actually fine, don't worry!"

Oh, no! What an unexpected tragedy. In other news...

The picture in the article features Trump holding an iPhone.

I can think of no product with the Trump name that hasn't proven to be a catastrophic disappointment or scam.

The only surprise would be that it is not deliberate. Previously, the Trump White House deliberately exposed citizens' personal data. That's what customers should expect.