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River Hart

The AT&T data breach can still trace back to you directly - here's how to stay safe

A mobile phone displays the AT&T logo in front of a blurred economic stock exchange index graph in the background.

AT&T has admitted 'tens of millions' of customers were involved in a huge data breach that rocked the telecom titan back in 2022. Although the breach impacted AT&T cellphone customers, the company has since revealed the exposed data did not contain the contents of personal calls and messages, and shouldn't be accesible to the public.

The customer data was downloaded from an AT&T workspace via a third-party cloud platform - all without authorization, of course. The data was made up of "nearly all" AT&T customers' call and text records from May 1, 2022, to October 31, 2022, making it a textbook target for cybercriminals hoping to turn personally identifiable information into a profit via the dark web.

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