The Briefing Room
General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 31, 2024, 03:59:06 pm
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AT&T acknowledges massive data leak affecting 73MILLION users as the telecom giant resets account passcodes for customers - after previously denying they'd been compromised
The phone carrier acknowledged a massive data leak and reset passcodes for its millions of customers this week
The dataset affects around 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account holders
By DOLORES CHANG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 13:10 EDT, 30 March 2024 | UPDATED: 13:23 EDT, 30 March 2024
AT&T reset account passcodes for millions of customers this week after acknowledging a massive data leak that affected more than 73 million users.
The telecom giant said the leaked dataset appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting around 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account holders.
The leaked dataset includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth, as reported by TechCrunch.
A security researcher who analyzed the dataset found it contained encrypted passcodes, prompting the carrier to initiate a resetting process, according to the outlet.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13255213/AT-T-massive-data-leak-73MILLION-resets-passcodes.html
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After being assured that AT&T was putting up more towers for better coverage here (all along the highway, i guess, because service in the boonies was often nil), I went with verizon and dropped AT&T after a brief period of having both.
That was over 10 years ago, so maybe they didn't give out any data on me.
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So this data leak came in 2019 or prior!!! Give me a break. How much damage has been done?