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If you're one of AT&T's cellular customers, you can check your account to see if your data was compromised as part of the massive breach the telecom giant announced on Friday. If you were an AT&T customer between May 1, 2022 to Oct. 31, 2022, it's likely your data was involved, given that the company said "nearly all" its cellular customers' records were gathered by hackers during that time. The breach also includes records from Jan. 2, 2023 for a "very small number of customers," AT&T said.But customers can check if their data was compromised by logging into their accounts, according...

Here's how to learn if your data was stolen in AT&T's massive hack

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AT&T customers will be notified by the company if their data was compromised in the major security breach.

AT&T Customers Impacted By Data Breach Should Do This Now

It Would Be Lovely To Head Into The Weekend Without A New Breach For A Change. AT&T have disclosed a SnowFlake related breach which effects around 109 million customers, essentially everyone with an AT&T phone account. The breach contains data that hackers managed to collect from May 1 to October 31, 2022 and again on January 2, 2023. The stolen data includes the phone numbers of not only AT&T customers but also external carriers, likely ones which interacted with one of the breached accounts. The data also includes the number of calls and texts made as well as an daily aggregate of call duration and in some cases cell site IDs the phone connected to.

AT&T Ruins Friday For Many Customers

A major data breach at AT&T exposed call and text records for millions of customers from May to October 2022. While call content and Social Security numbers were not compromised, phone numbers were. AT&T is investigating, notifying affected customers and one person has been apprehended. CNN’s Matt Egan reports 

How AT&T’s recent data breach affects you

This past April, AT&T discovered that there was a data breach in one of their workspaces through a third-party cloud platform. Proper and necessary steps were then taken immediately afterward. This resulted in customer data being illegally downloaded from the affected station. AT&T then proceeded to begin an investigation in order to assess and process what exactly happened.

AT&T Releases Details of Breached Data

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

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The breach, which occurred in 2022, could affect tens of millions of customers. A regulatory filing from AT&T has revealed a major data breach that occurred in 2022, with hackers able to access call and text message records of “nearly all” of the operator’s wireless customers. The...

AT&T data breach leaked “nearly all” of its customers mobile numbers

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A new SEC filing indicates that AT&T has suffered a data breach, and the carrier is pointing fingers at a third-party cloud platform. Hackers stole AT&T customers' call records, including those of MVNOs, but no personal information was breached. AT&T's breach impacts potentially millions. Customers should stay vigilant & protect...

Another data breach hits AT&T, this time leaking millions of call records

Hackers now know how often you called for carryout from the Thai place across the street in a six-month period. AT&T confirmed yesterday that the company experienced a massive data breach in which an unknown entity stole phone records from almost all of its nearly 110 million customers. The telecommunications...

Data breach exposes call logs of nearly 110m AT&T users

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Among the information leaked are telephone numbers and cell site IDs, which could potentially be used to locate customers

AT&T Reportedly Paid Almost $400,000 in Ransom to Hackers to Delete Private Customer Data

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AT&T customers are waking up to some pretty unsettling news. The carrier is alerting its users about a substantial data breach affecting virtually all AT&T subscribers. No, this is not good. The second-largest carrier in the U.S. has reported that customer data was illegally downloaded from a third-party cloud platform....

AT&T just confirmed a massive data breach, and you’re probably affected

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NEW JERSEY - Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced today that Walmart has agreed to pay $1.64 million to settle allegations of unlawful unit pricing practices across its 64 New Jersey retail stores. The settlement, which includes a $1.61 million civil penalty, marks the largest ever obtained by the Division’s Office of Weights and Measures (OWM).

Walmart Pays $1.64M Settlement for Unlawful Pricing in NJ

NYSE:T loses yet more customer data—this time, from almost all  of  them. Almost all AT&T customers in 2022 had their phone metadata stolen, plus some from Liberty and MVNOs. Ma Bell knew about the hack for months, but somehow didn’t get around to telling us until today.

AT&T Says 110M Customers’ Data Leaked — Yep, it’s Snowflake Again

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AT&T said Friday (July 12) that records of calls and texts of nearly all its wireless customers and others using its network were stolen in a cybersecurity incident. The stolen records identify the telephone numbers with which the wireless numbers of AT&T or mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) using AT&T’s wireless network interacted between May 1 and October 31, 2022, and on January 2, 2023, AT&T said in a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

AT&T Says Call, Text Records of ‘Nearly All’ Customers Stolen

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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The US-based telecom giant acknowledges hackers managed to retrieve text and call detail records (CDR) of almost all of their customers, insisting that other kinds of sensitive data such as the contents of said texts are safe. Customers of certain mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are affected by this, too.

Massive AT&T security breach exposes large amounts of customer data

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AT&T said Friday that 2022 call and text message records of nearly all of its wireless customers were exposed in a data breach.

After massive AT&T data breach, can users do anything?

Imagine a treasure trove of sensitive data brimming with the phone records of nearly every AT&T customer. Now, picture that trove spilling wide open, its contents snatched up by hackers and cybercriminals. This isn’t a scenario from a dystopian thriller – it’s the grim reality of AT&T’s latest data breach....

AT&T: ‘nearly all’ of your phone records were leaked in data breach

Over the past few days, AT&T, a major American telecom company, has made headlines due to a sophisticated cyber-attack that exposed the details of over 109 million mobile customers dating back to 2022. According to updates received by our Cybersecurity Insiders, the data breach occurred in 2022 and affected customers...

Details of AT&T data breach and 1TB data steal belonging to Disney

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Almost All of AT&T’s Wireless Customers Hacked as Snowflake Breach Snowballs

Gaining a deeper understanding of the threat landscape and the top tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of ransomware gangs is increasingly crucial for firms. News broke...

Almost All of AT&T’s Wireless Customers Hacked as Snowflake Breach Snowballs

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