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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

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

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 customers. The issue is believed to have impacted nearly all customers of AT&T’s cellular network. AT&T confirmed the massive data breach in...

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

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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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Hackers stole call and text records data from "nearly all" of 109 million AT&T Wireless customers, the telecommunications company disclosed on Friday. The firm said one suspect had been arrested after the records - from May to October 2022 - were illegally downloaded and copied to a third-party platform this April.

Hackers steal call records of 'nearly all' AT&T customers

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Alameda Post

New this morning in Episode 109 , topics include: Reports of vehicle thefts increased in May, but remain below last year’s peak; the largest affordable housing bond in California history is headed to the ballot in November; school’s out, but the district remains busy; free music this summer at South Shore; 90 is the new 60; Bryan Woo lands on the injured list; an intriguing Gold Coast property hits the market; and great onion rings in a surprising place. Plus weekend events. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1978056/15325729-june-28-2024-episode-109.mp3.

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AT&T has just disclosed another old data breach, with this one exposing nearly every customer's phone call and text message records for a date range spanning six months in 2022. The company made the disclosure on Friday morning. The company is specific about what got stolen, and believes that the...

Nearly every AT&T customer just had six months of call logs stolen

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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

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 call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach

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Every year, new laws that were passed the prior year go into effect on July 1. In 2024, a number of new laws will begin this Monday. Among them include higher wages for tipped employees, a gas tax increase, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

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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).

Walmart Pays $1.64M Settlement for Unlawful Pricing in NJ

Android Police

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

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It is believed to be one of the biggest data hacks in recent history

AT&T confirms massive hack of calls and texts with 'nearly all' customers impacted

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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California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

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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 Gemini FAB in Google Messages could soon be hidden with a simple toggle option, providing users with more customization. The feature is in beta, and there's potential for more settings toggles in Messages to enhance the user experience further, but no concrete signs of this were shown. Google continues...

The annoying Gemini button in Messages could soon be toggled off

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AT&T paid a king's ransom to a hacker with everyone's call logs, records indicate

Hackers demanded over $370,000 in ransom from AT&T to delete stolen data and provide proof. Blockchain records show the equivalent value in cryptocurrency (5.7 bitcoin) changed...

AT&T paid a king's ransom to a hacker with everyone's call logs, records indicate

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