{"id":27460,"date":"2024-03-31T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=27460"},"modified":"2024-03-31T08:44:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:44:27","slug":"att-data-breach-millions-of-customers-caught-up-in-major-dark-web-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/03\/31\/att-data-breach-millions-of-customers-caught-up-in-major-dark-web-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T data breach: Millions of customers caught up in major dark web leak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Personal data belonging to 73 million current or former AT&T customers has been leaked online.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Information including addresses, social security numbers and passcodes was published on the dark web, the US telecoms giant said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AT&T said it had not identified evidence indicating the data had been stolen but had brought in cybersecurity experts to investigate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The company said it had reset customers’ passcodes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They were urged by the company to “remain vigilant by monitoring account activity and credit reports”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The data involved in the breach appears to be from 2019 or earlier and is linked to 7.6 million customers and 65.4 former account holders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It also includes information such as full names, email addresses and dates of birth, though AT&T said financial information had not appeared in the leak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The company said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0that it was unclear whether the data had originated from its own systems or via a third-party supplier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AT&T’s wireless 5G network covers around 290 million people across the US and the company is one of the country’s largest mobile and internet services providers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In February, a\u00a0major outage impacted tens of thousands of phone users<\/a>, which prompted an apology from the firm and an offer of $5 credit for those affected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors in New York launched an investigation into that episode, which left people unable to use their phones for around 12 hours.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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