AT&T informed millions of consumers of the internet data breach. The AP reported that AT&T revealed Saturday that a "dark web" dataset has Social Security numbers for 7.6 million current and 65.4 million past account users.
Current user passcodes have been reset, and the business will contact account holders whose sensitive personal information was exposed.
The data "originated from AT&T or one of its vendors," the firm stated. Not sure. It stated the exposed data is from 2019 or before and does not contain financial or call history. It may contain passcodes, Social Security numbers, email, postal, phone, and birth dates.
According to cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt, the material on a hacker forum roughly two weeks ago mirrors a 2021 data breach that AT&T never revealed. According to Hunt, founder of an Australian website that warns people about personal data breaches, "If they assess this and they made the wrong call on it, and we have had a course of years pass without them being able to notify impacted customers," the company may face class action lawsuits.
Current user passcodes have been reset, and the business will contact account holders whose sensitive personal information was exposed.
The data "originated from AT&T or one of its vendors," the firm stated. Not sure. It stated the exposed data is from 2019 or before and does not contain financial or call history. It may contain passcodes, Social Security numbers, email, postal, phone, and birth dates.
According to cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt, the material on a hacker forum roughly two weeks ago mirrors a 2021 data breach that AT&T never revealed. According to Hunt, founder of an Australian website that warns people about personal data breaches, "If they assess this and they made the wrong call on it, and we have had a course of years pass without them being able to notify impacted customers," the company may face class action lawsuits.
