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AT&T customers have much to worry about after news of a massive data breach exposed their data.
CNN reports AT&T was the victim of a massive data breach, leading to call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of millions of cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers to be exposed, AT&T revealed on Friday, July 12.
Bruh.
The company says the compromised data includes the telephone numbers of “nearly all” of its cellular customers and customers from other wireless providers who utilized its cellular network between May 1, 2022, and October 31, 2022.
Per CNN:
The stolen logs also contain a record of every number AT&T customers called or texted – including customers of other wireless networks – the number of times they interacted, and the call duration.
Importantly, AT&T said the stolen data did not include the contents of calls and text messages nor the time of those communications.
The records of a “very small number” of customers from January 2, 2023, were also implicated, AT&T said.
“We have an ongoing investigation into the AT&T breach and we’re coordinating with our law enforcement partners,” the FCC said on social media platform X.
How Did This AT&T Breach Happen?
Now, suppose you’re wondering how this happened. In that case, the communications company is blaming an “illegal download” on a third-party cloud platform it learned about in April as it was dealing with another unrelated data breach.
Speaking with CNN, spokesperson for AT&T, Alex Byers says this recent breach had “no connection in any way” to another incident in March.
In that breach, the company says personal information, such as Social Security numbers of 73 million current and former customers, made its way to the dark web.
AT&T issued a statement about the breach: “We sincerely regret this incident occurred and remain committed to protecting the information in our care.”
Okay.
We wish these hackers had used their talents to help, like exposing Donald Trump or wiping away everyone’s debt.
Just saying.
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Telecommunications AT&T found itself trending on X after reports came forth that the company has been bombarded by outages across the United States. On X, those who have been affected by the outage have made several comments with some among them being filled with humor.
As seen on CNBC, the reports of the AT&T outage cropped up early Thursday morning (Feb. 22) with some 70,000 customers across the United States complaining of a lack of service. This included major city centers that were without emergency services.
In response to the outage, AT&T put out the following statement to the outlet:
“Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning,” AT&T said in a statement to CNBC. “Our network teams took immediate action and so far three-quarters of our network has been restored. We are working as quickly as possible to restore service to remaining customers.”
It appears that service is slowly returning for some customers but many online say that they are still unable to access the service. It hasn’t been reported why the outage took place
As a result, the company’s name and the hashtag #outage have been trending all morning with a barrage of comments from all sides. Some customers are demanding credit while some are questioning why some calls are still making it through.
We’ve got the reactions below.
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