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110 Million AT&T Call & Text Logs Stolen

110 Million AT&T Call & Text Logs Stolen

Last Friday, July 12th, Telecom giant AT&T revealed that they experienced a data breach impacting nearly all of their wireless customers. The company announced on April 19th, that “hackers exfiltrated records of customer call and text interactions from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022” and also on January 2, 2023.

AT&T is in process of notifying nearly 110 million account holders of the cyber crime. Compromised records identify other phone numbers their customers interacted with including call duration, text counts and numbers texted. Although the hacker reportedly demanded $1,000,000 ransom, SecurityWeek reported that approximately $370,000 in bitcoin was wired in May to prevent the data from getting leaked.

The U.S. telecommunications company said that the FBI is investigating and at least one person has been arrested after data was copied from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform, Snowflake. Snowflake is a company with 9,800+ global customers, including Adobe, Honeywell, Mastercard and Pfizer and has been in the news frequently of late. Learn More

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AT&T Breach Alert: 73 Million Impacted

AT&T Breach Alert: 73 Million Impacted

Our security teams have recently discovered that AT&T, one of the main US telecommunications companies, has suffered an enormous data breach. Data from 73 million current and former customers has been leaked on the dark web. In August, 2021, the company originally said that they did not suffer a data breach after a well-known threat actor claimed to be selling a database containing the personal information of 70 million customers. Although the hacking date remains unclear, one in five Americans have now been impacted. Data exposed include name, address, date of birth, phone number and social security numbers.

The company stated that it is not yet known whether the data originated from AT&T or one of its vendors. The company added that “currently AT&T does not have evidence of unauthorized access to its systems resulting in exfiltration of the data set.” The company said that it is reaching out to customers to reset their account pass codes and is also urging customers to remain alert about changes to their accounts or credit reports. LEARN MORE

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