In what seems to be a year of endless cybersecurity incidents making headlines, AT&T Wireless is one of the latest organizations to confirm it has been impacted by a substantial data breach. The company admitted in July that the call and text logs of 109 million of its wireless customers were illicitly obtained from the cloud of a third-party provider, Snowflake. The stolen records encompass all numbers that AT&T Wireless customers interacted with through calls or texts, along with the locations of cell sites. AT&T revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that an internal probe uncovered the data theft in April.
With data security having a direct correlation with building trust, what are some lessons we can take away from AT& Wireless’ breach as we look to strengthen our cloud security defenses?
