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It's not a good day to be an AT&T customer. The company has revealed that tens of millions of customers have had their call and message records leaked in a data breach.

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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.

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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 data includes logs containing every number AT&T customers called or texted.

AT&T Customers' Call And Text Records Stolen In Major Data Breach

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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

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...

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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

AT&T paid a hacker about $370,000 to delete customer data that was stolen from it as part of a hacking spree earlier this year. The hacker then provided a video to prove they had deleted the data, according to a Wired report today. AT&T reportedly negotiated through an intermediary, called...

AT&T reportedly gave $370,000 to a hacker to delete its stolen customer data

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

A breach of an AT&T cloud workspace has exposed phone numbers and metadata relating to calls and texts for nearly all AT&T wireless customers, as well as customers of other popular wireless providers. In an 8-K filing with the SEC on Friday, AT&T revealed that it suffered a major data...

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This is apparently the first cybersecurity incident where the Justice Department initially allowed an enterprise to not disclose. When confirming details of a massive data breach of about 110 million customers, AT&T on Friday also revealed that it became apparently the first enterprise to be given permission to initially keep breach details secret, and then was cleared to publish.

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	AT&T said in a securities filing Friday that the hacker “accessed an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform” back in April, and was able to exfiltrate “files containing AT&T records of customer call and text interactions that occurred between approximately May 1 and October 31, 2022, as well as on January 2, 2023.”




	The company notes that the hacked data...

AT&T Says Hackers Obtained Call and Text Records of “Nearly All” Wireless Customers

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AT&T suffers another major data breach, this one affecting 'nearly all' wireless customers

If you're an AT&T wireless customer, pay attention because there's a good chance hackers have accessed some of your information. For the second time in three...

AT&T suffers another major data breach, this one affecting 'nearly all' wireless customers

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