T-Mobile Removes SIM Card Data Breach Case to Federal Court in Los Angeles

T-Mobile removed a SIM card data breach lawsuit from California Superior Court in Los Angeles to U.S. District Court for Western California in Los Angeles, said a Monday notice (docket 2:23-cv-05517) in the federal court. Plaintiff Vahid Chitsazzadeh claimed violations of California’s Business and Professional Code in the May fraud case, alleging T-Mobile didn’t notify him his personal data was compromised in a 2020 data breach. Chitsazzadeh learned “months later” T-Mobile had suffered multiple data breaches before the notice of the SIM incident and that his personal data had been compromised, said the complaint. The carrier notified him in May 2020 that an “unknown number” had used his SIM card but didn’t say explicitly that his personal data had been compromised, “despite their obligation to do so,” said the complaint.