A pedestrian passes an AT&T retailer in New York, U.S.
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AT&T introduced Saturday that it’s investigating a two-week-old knowledge breach that revealed thousands and thousands of shoppers’ knowledge on the darkish internet, a portion of the web that may solely be accessed utilizing particular software program.
The corporate has reset the passcodes of the 7.6 million present customers who have been impacted and mentioned it’s actively contacting these clients, together with the 65.4 million former account holders who additionally had their knowledge compromised.
“As of right this moment, this incident has not had a cloth impression on AT&T’s operations,” the corporate wrote in a press launch on Saturday.
AT&T’s preliminary evaluation discovered that the leaked knowledge was from roughly 2019 or earlier and consists of private info equivalent to names, residence addresses, cellphone numbers, dates of start and Social Safety numbers. The info set doesn’t include private monetary info or name historical past.
AT&T has inspired customers, who will obtain an e mail in the event that they have been affected, to arrange fraud alert accounts and monitor their account exercise and credit score studies. The corporate has not but recognized the supply of the leak.
In February, AT&T clients skilled an hours-long mobile outage, which the corporate clarified resulted from a system difficulty, not a cyberattack. The corporate’s CEO, John Stankey, later apologized for that incident and supplied buyer credit to these impacted.
