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Posted on 07/12/2024 7:05:41 AM PDT by Enlightened1
AT&T suffered a massive data breach that saw data from 'nearly all' of its customers' accounts illegally downloaded, the company has confirmed.
The compromised data included records of calls and texts of wireless subscribers and landline customers over a five month period in 2022.
AT&T listed it had 110 million wireless customers that year, which would make this hack one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent history.
Although the exposed data did not include customer names, there are 'publicly available online tools' capable of connecting numbers with people's identities, the company said.
AT&T admitted it had first learned about the hack in April, but is now notifying former and current customers who were impacted.
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Amazed that these “hacks” cannot be prevented.
I don’t think that is actually possible
> The compromised data included records of calls and texts of wireless subscribers and landline customers over a five month period in 2022. <
Why would AT&T even store those 2022 records in the first place? Why would they want to save my email to my brother, asking him to return the power saw he borrowed?
“Why would AT&T even store those 2022 records in the first place? Why would they want to save my email to my brother, asking him to return the power saw he borrowed?”
The article says records (metadata) of calls and texts not emails. Carriers retain information for some period (varies by carrier) in order to respond to inquiries from customers or subpoenas.
Does this mean ATT is keeping transcriptions of all texts and phone conversations?
I used Consumer Cellular
$20 a month voice txt and data (not unlimited, but I rarely hit the limits)
“Does this mean ATT is keeping transcriptions of all texts and phone conversations?”
Sure sounds that way.
They should not have a business left after this.
I never text and all the calls I get are scam calls that go to the answering machine , why do I even have a phone ,LOL
In March AT&T leaked 73 million customer’s passwords, bank and credit card info, addresses, and social security numbers.
I found my info on the dark web and notified them after several thousand $$$ of charges on the card I used to pay my AT&T bill.
I had to replace the card 3x as they did not close the leak.
They didn’t even acknowledge my complaint, and it took them two weeks after I notified them to tell the public.
Then, I had Direct TV through the AT&T package on autopay. Their screw up caused my Direct TV to be canceled right when my wife wanted to watch a program. I called them and complained. They told me I would need to enter a new two year contract. I told them to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Later, they called to apoligize for their error and wanted to renew me with a big discount. I explained that I would not use their service if it were free.
Right now I’m waiting on an AT&T repair tech as my 1 GIG internet has been out for 3 days. I called 3 days ago and got their earliest repair tech. Hope he shows up as we are in the end of his arrival window.
😬😬😬
It is RECORDS of calls and texts. Not the actual calls and texts. This is called CPNI (Customer proprietary network information). Still very bad to get it hacked.
AT&T runs the servers and systems for the NSA, CIA, FBI. If you think for one second that this is not done without the approval or even perhaps participation of the government, your pretty dumb.
Consumer Cellular markets AT&T services.
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I just had my debit card hacked two weeks ago. Shortly after being notified by ATT about the data breach. Now I have to wait for the bank to conclude a fraud investigation before they can credit back over $200 to my account. 😣
Pretty sure all phone companies do.
The same happened to my BIL 6 months ago. The bank noticed when $5,000 was transferred to an undisclosed recipient. Fortunately, they stopped the transfer. Like you, however, the 5k was held by the bank for two weeks until the investigation concluded. They said that the online account was hacked on the bank side, not on the public side.
Local bank manager was very helpful.
Well, did he? return it?
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