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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