AT&T apparently paid a hacker big bucks to delete stolen phone record data

A black AT&T sign with its logo in bright blue hanging outside a brick store .

A poorly protected Snowflake account has reprotedly cost AT&T more than $300,000 following the recent cyberattack against the telecom giant.

A few months ago, it was reported that a threat actor managed to compromise more than 150 company accounts on Snowflake, thanks to their poor password hygiene, and not securing their accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA).