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Dave LeClair

Huge Frontier hack exposed personal info of 750,000 customers — including Social Security numbers

The Frontier logo on a building.

Frontier has notified approximately 750,000 of its customers of a data breach conducted by a ransomware group in April. These types of hacks seem to be commonplace for large companies, as we seem to be reporting on something like this happening every other day.

What makes the Frontier hack particularly concerning, though, is that customers' full names and Social Security numbers were stolen, as reported by Bleeping Computer. The hackers also claim to have even more information on Frontier's customers, though having the Social Security numbers is about as bad as it gets.

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