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AT&T customers are calling on the company to fix things after call and text records were leaked in a data breach. On Friday, AT&T announced that "nearly all" customers were affected during the security breach. Calls and text message records of customers in mid-to-late 2022 were leaked after private information...

AT&T users call for cash ‘settlement’ after company confirms calls and texts were unprotected in colossal data breach

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

Hackers successfully stole the phone records of "nearly all" AT&T customers and an unnamed number of MVNO subscribers. AT&T has disclosed the incident to regulators and is working with law enforcement to rectify the situation. One suspect has already been apprehended for their alleged involvement. Basic call and text records...

AT&T Lost Your Phone Records to Hackers

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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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

We're learning more about that giant data breach at AT&T. While no personal information was compromised, experts say hackers could easily determine who was calling and texting whom.

AT&T Data Breach: No Personal Info Compromised, But Calls and Texts Exposed

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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.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

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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

TheDailyBeast

Nearly every AT&T customer had their data leaked after hackers breached a third-party platform used by the telecommunications giant, according to an SEC filing made by the company on Friday. Between May 1, 2022 and Oct. 31, 2022 hackers were able to access the call and text records of approximately all 109 million AT&T customers, according to the Associated Press. “The data does not contain the content of calls or texts, personal information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or other personally identifiable information,” the company said in a statement on Friday, adding that it also didn’t include...

Hackers Steal Nearly Every AT&T Customer’s Data

Earlier this week, news spread of an AT&T hack involving stolen call records for tens of millions of its customers. As it turns out, AT&T reportedly paid a hacker $370,000 to delete the data and provide video proof of the deletion. Wired spoke with the hacker and reports the random...

AT&T Shells Out $370K to Hacker to Delete Stolen Phone Records

Daily Mail

AT&T revealed millions of customers calls and texts were leaked in April that could reveal their geographic location. At least one person has been arrested in connection with the attack.

Were your AT&T calls and texts leaked? Everything you need to know about massive data breach

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Edmond Thorne

Florida Customers at High Risk in Massive AT&T Data Breach. Fort Lauderdale, FL - In another scandalous revelation, AT&T disclosed a massive data breach that exposed millions of its customers across the United States, including Florida. The breach, which is currently under investigation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has raised serious concerns about the security of customer data and the potential misuse of this information.

Millions of Floridians Again Caught In Massive AT&T Data Breach

The Independent

 A cyber attack on telecommunications giant AT&T obtained data on “nearly all” of its more than 100m cellphone subscribers.“We have taken steps to close off the illegal access point,” the company said in a statement on Friday. “We are working with law enforcement in its efforts to arrest those involved in the incident. We understand that at least one person has been apprehended.”The breach compromised files containing records of calls and texts, mostly between May and October of 2022, identifying telephone numbers customers interacted with, without capturing the content of those interactions or sensitive identification information like Social Security...

Hold the phone: AT&T reveals hack stole data of ‘nearly all’ customers in 2022

- Advertisement - AT&T has reported another customer data breach, impacting almost all of its customers. On July 12, AT&T announced that customer data was illegally downloaded from a third-party cloud platform in April. The compromised data includes call and text records of nearly all AT&T cellular customers between May...

‘Nearly all’ AT&T customer call and text records compromised by hackers

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Phil Norman

AT&T customers are on high alert after the telecom giant disclosed a massive data breach impacting "nearly all" of its cellular customers. The breach, stemming from unauthorized access to data stored on a third-party cloud platform, compromised records of phone calls and texts made between May 2022 and October 2022. A smaller set of records from January 2023 was also affected.

Massive AT&T Data Breach Exposes 'Nearly All' Customers

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

The Mirror US

American multinational telecomm giant AT&T have revealed they were hacked with the call and text data of over 100 million customers illegally downloaded by hackers

AT&T confirms massive hack of customer's texts in one of biggest breaches in history

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AT&T just revealed a massive data leak that may have affected you if you were a customer in 2022 or 2023. Here's what it entails & how to protect yourself.

If You Have AT&T This Massive Data Leak Is A Privacy Nightmare: Here's What To Do Next

The Hill

A security breach at AT&T exposed call and text data from nearly all of its customers, the company revealed Friday.  The records of most of AT&T’s cellular customers between May and October 2022, as well as a single day in January 2023, were illegally downloaded from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform, AT&T said. …

AT&T security breach exposes call, text data from almost all customers

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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

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AT&T hackers stole six months' worth of text and call logs

AT&T suffered a data breach in 2022 that resulted in hackers getting a hold of six months’ worth of text and phone call logs from its...

AT&T hackers stole six months' worth of text and call logs

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