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US Mobile Giant AT&T Suffers Fresh Massive Data Theft

According to AT&T, the data downloaded by the hackers did not include the content of calls and messages, nor personal information such as names or social security numbers (Credit: AFP)

US mobile operator AT&T reported Friday that hackers had stolen call and message data from virtually all of its customers for six months in 2022 -- around 90 million people.

The company said in a statement that "AT&T customer data was illegally downloaded from our workspace on a third-party cloud platform" and that it had opened an investigation.

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