Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach | CNN Business
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The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Additionally, AT&T said that for an undisclosed subset of its records, one or more cell site identification numbers linked to the calls and texts were also exposed.

    The FBI said AT&T reached out shortly after learning about the hack, but the agency wanted to review the data for potential national security risks.

    At that time, AT&T said personal information such as Social Security numbers on 73 million current and former customers was released onto the dark web.

    In the new incident, AT&T told CNN it learned in April that customer data was illegally downloaded from its workspace on Snowflake, a third-party cloud platform.

    Brad Jones, chief information security officer at Snowflake, told CNN in a separate statement that the company has not found evidence this activity was “caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration or breach of Snowflake’s platform.” Jones said this has been verified by investigations by third-party cybersecurity experts at Mandiant and CrowdStroke.

    The company said it’s cooperating with law enforcement’s efforts to apprehend those responsible and understands at least one person has already been arrested.

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  • 667@lemmy.radioEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Ahh, so that massive outage in Feb was a DDoS misdirect.