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Exclusive: Hackers Leak 86 Million AT&T Records with Decrypted SSNs
HackRead ^ | June 4, 2025 | Waqas

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: att; hackers; hacking; internet; ssns

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I had to quit my AT&T email after the ShinyHunters hack back in April of 2024.

It became completely unusable as spam would come in almost every 10 minutes.

Guess it's time to get LifeLock.

1 posted on 06/04/2025 1:58:11 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

If you ever did business with AT&T, you’re in there.


2 posted on 06/04/2025 2:05:28 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: packagingguy

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.


3 posted on 06/04/2025 2:06:28 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: packagingguy

Why does AT&T have customer SS numbers?


4 posted on 06/04/2025 2:07:28 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: SpaceBar

“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.


5 posted on 06/04/2025 2:08:05 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: posterchild

“Why does AT&T have customer SS numbers?”

Credit checks...


6 posted on 06/04/2025 2:09:12 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: packagingguy

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.


7 posted on 06/04/2025 2:23:27 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: packagingguy
Oh. So THAT'S why att.com keeps erasing the password of my account maintenance pages from their site.
8 posted on 06/04/2025 2:38:33 PM PDT by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

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


9 posted on 06/04/2025 2:39:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: SpaceBar

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.”


10 posted on 06/04/2025 2:41:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: packagingguy
Guess it's time to get LifeLock.

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....

11 posted on 06/04/2025 2:47:51 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: Tell It Right

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.


12 posted on 06/04/2025 2:49:06 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

The US has some weak privacy laws. AT&T should not be holding on to your personal information and SSN forever.


13 posted on 06/04/2025 2:59:12 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Openurmind

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.


14 posted on 06/04/2025 3:04:10 PM PDT by posterchild
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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...


15 posted on 06/04/2025 3:10:31 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

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.


16 posted on 06/04/2025 3:21:02 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild

Wise... I do the same. In fact I do not put any info in any database except my Bank.


17 posted on 06/04/2025 3:34:23 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: frank ballenger

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.


18 posted on 06/04/2025 4:51:31 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: packagingguy

AT&T also issues credit cards. I wonder if those are affected.


19 posted on 06/04/2025 5:29:14 PM PDT by Revel
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