Posted on 06/04/2025 1:58:11 PM PDT by packagingguy
Hackers have leaked what they claim is AT&T’s database which was reportedly stolen by the ShinyHunters group in April 2024 after they exploited major security flaws in the Snowflake cloud data platform. But is this really the Snowflake-linked data? We took a closer look.
As seen by the Hackread.com research team, the data was first posted on a well-known Russian cybercrime forum on May 15, 2025. It was re-uploaded on the same forum on June 3, 2025, after which it began circulating among other hackers and forums.
After analyzing the leaked data, we found it contains a detailed set of personal information. Each of these data points poses a serious privacy risk on its own, but together, they create full identity profiles that could be exploited for fraud or identity theft. The data includes:
Full names
Date of birth
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Physical addresses
44 Million Social Security Numbers (SSN) (43,989,219 in total)
(Excerpt) Read more at hackread.com ...
It became completely unusable as spam would come in almost every 10 minutes.
Guess it's time to get LifeLock.
If you ever did business with AT&T, you’re in there.
I almost wish someone in the CIA was both patriotic and shrewd enough to leak the SSN’s of illegals so they can experience ID theft.
Why does AT&T have customer SS numbers?
“If you ever did business with AT&T, you’re in there.”
Not only that, they are selling your data to the highest bidder. They all are... Data mining and sales is a huge market.
“Why does AT&T have customer SS numbers?”
Credit checks...
I’m beginning to believe that the promise of the internet has been almost entirely negated by the realization that about 1/3 of your life has to be devoted to fighting off fraud of some kind. I happen to believe that about 95% of what you read on the internet is fraudulent. I don’t consider it a particularly sanguine state of affairs. I believe it generates terminal pessimism.
We have no protection.
Another data breach with emails and SSNs recently had someone say to change your passwords-—but the dark web crooks have all they need without the passwords.
-—The Luddite frank ballenger
All the landline phones in the 1980s and 1990s would take in just about everybody. Andy Griffith tv ads said “I’m sticking with ol’ reliable.”
I am not sure what Life lifeLock offers. What I do is freeze my credit reports directly with the agencies. These days it relatively easy to lock and unlock your account for credit checks. If I get life hacked, my regular insurance supposedly covers cleaning up that mess....
Once I had a PI run a background check on myself to make sure no negative information was out there one me.
Nothing interesting came up EXCEPT I was working for six different employers in multiple states under one SSN.
What was also weird I had a bunch of various Spanish surnames instead of my Gaelic one.
You’d the the social security administration could see there was a problem, but no.
The US has some weak privacy laws. AT&T should not be holding on to your personal information and SSN forever.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a credit check for tmobile, mint, or others. I’ve never given my SS number to a phone company other than perhaps a landline last century.
They can also get it through autopay records. Banks give that out to them when they SHOULD NOT. Why do Banks give that out to them? For debt collection legalities. Without it they cannot legally collect a debt.
And this is why it is absolutely stupid to use autopay of any kind...
I’ve always either received a paper bill or used a credit card. I refuse to give an SSN to dr offices or utilities. Only financial institutions are legally required to have it.
Wise... I do the same. In fact I do not put any info in any database except my Bank.
Hard to believe that everyone used to be in the phone book with full name and full street address, and of course the phone number, you could even call information and have the operator give all that to you.
We used to be a homogeneous, open, trusting nation.
AT&T also issues credit cards. I wonder if those are affected.
What is the point of encrypting when a hacker can decrypt SSNs? I wonder what encryption method they used?
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