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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Sounds like someone going in and altering data under the guise of theft.
That was my first thought. Since the intelligence community is under pressure from the FISA court for lying in the past, why not just steal the database.
You were luck it was only $200.
Mine was several thousand dollars, primarily in auto parts and tools purchased in Tennessee.
It happened on my replacement card, which AT&T updated, and then a third time as AT&T kept leaking it. They offered me free credit checks for a year...
Wanna bet that all the downloads went straight to DOT GOV?
Wanna bet that all the downloads went straight to DOT GOV?
Wanna bet that all the downloads went straight to DOT GOV?
Click “POST” once, get three...must be bonus day!
It’s why I never use my debit card. If it gets compromised, it can really mess up your world.
Do you think it was deliberate?
From personal experience, multiple times, companies and governments have employees using and or selling your data.
The latest, one three days ago, from a routine hospital visit.
I am still recieving scam offerings from ten years ago instituted by an employee from a car dealership. I didn’t know where the serious scams were coming from until a cryptic call from the dealership where they were following up on an internal investigation. I knew exactly who the person was then, an alcholic service agent.
I’m very glad to see most people peel the onions all the way down to the middle these days. Don’t buy the narrative. Get thru the deliberate falsehoods and get your nose right into the stinking reality.
Yes, it is deliberate.
They can. This is willful ignorance of cybersecurity best practice. And this happens FAR MORE than you know.
It’s believable. The NSA does.
From the article, this was someone inside who uploaded the info.
The article says that this particular breach, was a record of what number called what other number, with a subset of them identifying the attached cell tower.
I agree with you. I use American Express Delta as the free flights, miles, and free bags when traveling more than pay for it.
Yep, only for atm cash w/ds at the bank.
I am not even sure if it’s possible if you were man in the middle or standing in front of a mainframe
not really don't have any and never visited the website.
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