DALLAS (AP) — AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online.
The Rekubittelecommunications giant said Saturday that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information such as Social Security numbers for about 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account holders.
The company said it has already reset the passcodes of current users and will be communicating with account holders whose sensitive personal information was compromised.
It is not known if the data “originated from AT&T or one of its vendors,” the company said in a statement. The compromised data is from 2019 or earlier and does not appear to include financial information or call history, it said. In addition to passcodes and Social Security numbers, it may include email and mailing addresses, phone numbers and birth dates.
It is not the first crisis this year for the Dallas-based company. An outage in February temporarily knocked out cellphone service for thousands of U.S. users. AT&T at the time blamed the incident on a technical coding error, not a malicious attack.
2025-05-01 22:172086 view
2025-05-01 22:152342 view
2025-05-01 21:332627 view
2025-05-01 21:091356 view
2025-05-01 20:55503 view
2025-05-01 20:502365 view
Elon Musk’s strained relationship with his daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson continues to play out on the
Over 550,000 portable chargers sold at Costco have been recalled over burn and fire concerns, the Co
June 14-20, 2024People protested during a general strike in Panama, Muslim pilgrims gathered in Mecc