There was another serious breach of AT&T records that was reported in March, which may have involved access to customer social security numbers.
There was another serious breach of AT&T records that was reported in March, which may have involved access to customer social security numbers.Communications giant AT&T made a disturbing admission this week, indicating that hackers had accessed records of calls and texts of “nearly all” its cellular customers for the period between
The stolen data showed the telephone numbers a customer contacted between approximately May and October 2022 and on Jan. 2, 2023, according to AT&T. The records also showed how many times those numbers were contacted and the total duration of calls over time. A subset of the data included details about cellular sites that could be used to determine users’ locations.AT&T hasn’t said who the hacker was or how many people may have been involved.
Beyond telecommunications, recent cyberattacks have crippled operations or have led to the release of troves of data belonging to hospital patients, Ticketmaster customers and others. In some cases, the primary goal of the attacks has not always been to steal data, but to disrupt services to such an extent that providers were more likely to pay ransoms.
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