Around 73 million current and former AT&T account holders have been impacted following this month’s data set leak to the dark web.
AT&T stated that it is looking into the data breach which impacted approximately 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders. according to the telecom company.
The initial analysis indicated that the leaked data is from 2019 or earlier, as stated by the company. AT&T mentioned that currently there is no proof of unauthorized access to its systems from this month’s leak.
The company’s investigation is being supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts.
The telecom company mentioned that it is not yet clear if the data came from AT&T or one of its vendors while the source of the data is being evaluated.
The incident has not significantly affected the telecom company’s operations.
AT&T, whose 5G network serves around 295 million people in the U.S., is communicating with customers affected by the leak and will provide “credit monitoring.” reaches Last month, the company had an incident impacting users around the country. Users had problems with wireless connections. The incident sparked a federal investigation involving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the FBI.
After the hours-long outages in February, the company said it would provide impacted users $5 credit. outage The incident involved users across the country experiencing issues with wireless connections. This led to a federal investigation with the FCC, DHS, and the FBI. prompted After the hours-long outages in February, the company decided to give impacted users $5 credit.
The incident led to a federal investigation with the FCC, DHS, and the FBI. said Around 73 million current and former AT&T account holders have been impacted following this month’s data set leak to the dark web. AT&T said it is investigating the data set leak which impacted about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders, according to the telecom company. The preliminary analysis showed the…
