{"id":25495,"date":"2024-03-31T04:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25495"},"modified":"2024-03-31T04:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:21:30","slug":"data-from-73m-current-former-customers-leaked-on-dark-web-att-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25495","title":{"rendered":"Data from 73M current, former customers leaked on dark web, AT&T confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Information for some 73 million current and former AT&T<\/a> customers was recently posted on the dark web in a data breach, the telecommunications company confirmed on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“AT&T has determined that AT&T data-specific fields were contained in a data set released on the dark web approximately two weeks ago,” the Dallas-based company said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AT&T said the affected data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier and impacts approximately 7.6 million current customers and approximately 65.4 million former account holders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data set included personal information such as Social Security numbers, AT&T said. It is unclear if the data originated from AT&T or one of its vendors, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“AT&T has launched a robust investigation supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts,” the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a note to customers<\/a>, the company said that a “number” of AT&T passcodes have been compromised and that it reset the passcodes for all impacted current customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In addition, we will be communicating with current and former account holders with compromised sensitive personal information,” the company said.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The compromised data does not appear to contain personal financial information or call history, AT&T said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TechCrunch reported<\/a> that it had informed AT&T on Monday that the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that were easy to decipher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first time the company has experienced issues this year. In February, an outage<\/a> temporarily knocked out cellphone service for tens of thousands of customers in the U.S. The network disruption was caused by a software update, the company said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Information for some 73 million current and former AT&T customers was recently posted on the dark web in a data breach, the telecommunications company confirmed on Saturday. “AT&T has determined that AT&T data-specific fields were contained in a data set released on the dark web approximately two weeks ago,” the Dallas-based company said in a\u00a0statement. AT&T said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[27548,27546,27547,1484,27549],"class_list":["post-25495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-73-million","tag-att","tag-dark-web","tag-data","tag-former-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25497,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495\/revisions\/25497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}