01 April 2024 – The telecom giant AT&T said on Saturday that it is looking into a data collection that was made available on the “dark web” about two weeks ago. According to its first investigation, the data set may have affected 65.4 million former and 7.6 million current account users.
The data set is from 2019 or earlier, according to the business. According to AT&T, there is no proof that the event resulted in illegal access to its systems. According to the firm, it is still being determined whether the data came from AT&T or one of its suppliers. The source of the data is still being investigated, according to AT&T, which said that the event has not materially affected its operations.
All affected parties have been contacted by AT&T, which has reset passcodes for 7.6 million active users. Additionally, it promised to provide credit monitoring as necessary. In the US, the telecom carrier’s 5G network serves around 290 million people.
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Federal investigations were spurred by an AT&T outage in February that caused thousands of U.S. consumers’ calls and text messages to be interrupted. The source of the data is still being investigated, according to AT&T, which said that the event has not materially affected its operations.
