AT&T Revealed on Friday The massive data hack, first revealed in April, may be more serious than previously thought.
“Almost all” mobile customer call and text message logs were exposed in the leak.
“In April, AT&T learned that customer data had been illegally downloaded from workspaces on a third-party cloud platform,” the company said. said in a statement. “We launched an investigation and engaged leading cybersecurity experts to understand the nature and scope of the criminal activity. We have taken steps to shut down illegal access points.”
The leaked data includes files containing AT&T call and text message records for “virtually all” AT&T cell phone customers between May 1, 2022, and October 31, 2022. CNNAT&T had 110 million wireless customers by the end of 2022.
company explain This data “does not include the contents of phone calls or text messages, nor personal information (such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth or other personally identifiable information).”
“At this time, we do not believe this data has been made public,” AT&T said in a statement. “We are working with law enforcement in an effort to arrest those involved. We understand that at least one person has been arrested.”
Customers can visit att.com/DataIncident learn more.
(Original story below from April 1, 2024)
Current and former AT&T customers beware.
Mobile and Internet service providers Confirmation ends Over the weekend, the company suffered a large-scale data breach. It is estimated that the personal information of 7.6 million current AT&T customers and 65.4 million former customers may have been exposed, affecting a total of 73 million users.
AT&T said the data set was leaked to the “dark web” about two weeks ago. It’s unclear whether the leak came from AT&T or a third-party vendor.
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Data damaged may include Social Security number, full name, phone number, AT&T account information (number and password), and email and mailing address.
“At this time, AT&T has no evidence that unauthorized access to its systems resulted in the disclosure of data sets. The company is actively communicating with those affected and will provide credit monitoring where applicable at our expense,” the company said in a statement stated in the statement. freed. “As of today, this incident has not had a significant impact on AT&T’s operations.”
The company also clarified that the data “appears” to come from accounts created in 2019 or earlier.
News of the leak was originally posted on X on March 17 by tech account @vx-underground, who claimed that the “stolen material was legitimate” and was leaked to the dark web platform Breached.
Today, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked to Breached. There is no information to indicate whether this is a third-party compromise, or which “department” the data comes from.
Regardless, upon review, we can confirm that the stolen material is legitimate.
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) March 17, 2024
Earlier this year, in February, AT&T suffered from the masses The outage affected approximately 75% of the company’s customers. Chief Executive John Stankey confirmed that customers “most affected” by the service outage will receive a $5 credit.
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“Moments like this are a test of resilience,” Stankey told ” internal memo. “This is not our first network outage, and it won’t be our last – unfortunately, it’s a reality of our business. What matters most is how we react, adapt and improve to deliver what our customers need and expect. services.
AT&T Very frustrated As of Monday morning, annual growth exceeded 10.5%.
