What you need to know
- The FCC fined AT&T $13 million for a cloud security failure that exposed sensitive customer info last year, equivalent to a fee of about $1.46 per customer exposed.
- In 2023, a former AT&T cloud vendor was hacked, compromising data for 8.9 million customers.
- The vendor was supposed to delete customer data after it was no longer needed but held onto it for years, leading to the breach.
