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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.

AT&T breach victims need to take these 3 steps right now

CBS Boston

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

The US Sun

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

TIME

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

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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NewSantaAna

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Pittsburgh, PA

Scripps News

AT&T informed regulators on Friday of a massive data breach impacting nearly all of its customers, revealing that a "threat actor" accessed phone and text records.

Nearly all AT&T customers' text, phone records impacted by 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

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

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

Kentucky State

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

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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

TechRadar

"Nearly all" AT&T customers are impacted by the leak, which took place in 2022, revealing call and text records. Here's what you need to know.

AT&T just suffered one of the worst data breaches in years – and nobody's safe

USA TODAY

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?

A massive AT&T data breach has seen hackers able to steal the personal data of almost every customer the company has – a total of some 110 million Americans. In an incredible security fail, the stolen data includes not only customer phone numbers, but also records of who contacted whom – a potential privacy minefield …

Massive AT&T data breach sees hackers steal personal data of almost all customers

New Jersey State

Morristown Minute

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).

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The Independent

A security breach in 2022 compromised the data of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as its landline customers interacted with those cellular numbers. A company investigation determined that compromised data includes files containing AT&T records of calls and texts between May 1, 2022 and Oct. 31, 2022.AT&T has more than 100 million customers in the U.S. and almost 2.5 million business accounts. The company said Friday that it has launched an investigation and engaged with cybersecurity experts to understand the nature and scope of the criminal activity....

AT&T 2022 security breach hits nearly all cellular customers and landline accounts with contact

Chicago, IL

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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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Butler, PA

Former President Trump survived an assassination attempt less than 10 minutes into his speech at a campaign rally in Butler, PA, on Saturday. One attendee, Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief and father, died in the shooting. The suspected gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, PA, was killed by the Secret Service. He reportedly used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle and conducted the attack on the roof of a building outside the event’s security perimeter, per the Washington Post.

US in precarious moment after failed Trump assassination

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AT&T on Friday said a data breach exposed the call and text messages of “nearly all” cellular customers and wireless providers that use its network.

AT&T hack: Almost all customers’ call, text records exposed in data breach

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

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...

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

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