AT&T SAYS 73 MILLION CUSTOMERS’ DATA HAS BEEN LEAKED ON THE DARK WEB

Sun 31 March 2024:

The multinational corporation claims that contact information, passcodes, and Social Security numbers (SSNs) of millions of former and current AT&T customers have been leaked online.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the largest telecommunications network in the United States stated a recently found dataset on the “dark web” contained information for around 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million previous users, for a total of approximately 73 million affected accounts.

It is not known if the breach “originated from AT&T or one of its vendors”, the company said.

“To the best of our knowledge, the compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and does not contain personal financial information or call history,” the statement added.

All 7.6 million existing account holders whose sensitive personal information was compromised were set to be notified about the breach AT&T. The company said it had already reset passcodes and was investigating the incident.

Great, so AT&T is saying they've had a data breach…..

— 3rdStrike (@GinniesDaughter) March 31, 2024

In addition to passcodes and SSNs, the hacked data possibly included email and mailing addresses, phone numbers and birth dates, AT&T added.

Nearly two weeks ago, reports of the breach first appeared on a hacker site. It’s unclear if this leak is connected to a similar 2021 breach that received a lot of media attention but that AT&T chose not to acknowledge.

A hacker at the time claimed to have access to data of 70 million AT&T customers, including their names, addresses, phone numbers, SSNs, and date of birth.

Auction data on a hacking forum revealed the hacker attempted to sell the stolen information for thousands of dollars.

Troy, the creator of Have I Been Pwned? – a website that alerts subscribers to data breaches – said in a blogpost at least 153,000 of his customers were affected.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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