Some 7.6 million present and 65.4 million former accounts are impacted, it stated.
March 30, 2024, 8:19 PM ET
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Information for some 73 million present and former AT&T clients was lately posted on the darkish internet in a knowledge breach, the telecommunications firm confirmed on Saturday.
“AT&T has decided that AT&T data-specific fields had been contained in a knowledge set launched on the darkish internet roughly two weeks in the past,” the Dallas-based firm stated in a press release.
AT&T stated the affected information set seems to be from 2019 or earlier and impacts roughly 7.6 million present clients and roughly 65.4 million former account holders.
The information set included private data resembling Social Security numbers, AT&T stated. It is unclear if the information originated from AT&T or certainly one of its distributors, the corporate stated.
“AT&T has launched a sturdy investigation supported by inside and exterior cybersecurity specialists,” the corporate stated.
In a be aware to clients, the corporate stated {that a} “quantity” of AT&T passcodes have been compromised and that it reset the passcodes for all impacted present clients.
“In addition, we will probably be speaking with present and former account holders with compromised delicate private data,” the corporate stated.
The compromised information doesn’t seem to comprise private monetary data or name historical past, AT&T stated.
TechCrunch reported that it had knowledgeable AT&T on Monday that the leaked information contained encrypted passcodes that had been simple to decipher.
This isn’t the primary time the corporate has skilled points this 12 months. In February, an outage briefly knocked out cellphone service for tens of hundreds of consumers within the U.S. The community disruption was attributable to a software program update, the corporate stated on the time.
