Jeff Brandt, Editor of PinHawk's Law Technology Digest Newsletter, discusses on how Bill Toulas's article, Massive AT&T breach exposes call logs of 109 million customers tells his readers that AT&T had a massive data breach and how it exposed nearly 109 million customers call logs and other personal information.
t seems that nearly 100% of AT&T mobile customers had cell phone information accessed. My first blush is that it could have been worse. In the email I got AT&T wrote, "The investigation indicates the data included the phone numbers of your call and text interactions from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022. It also included counts of those calls/texts and total call durations for specific days or months. The data included the cell tower identification number of the most frequently used cell tower over different time periods for some of your call interactions." They did specify, "The compromised data does not include the content of calls or text messages nor personal information, such as AT&T customer name, business name, Social Security numbers, birth dates, or financial information. It also does not include some typical information you see in your usage details, such as the time stamp of calls or texts." Be aware and read more at BLEEPINGCOMPUTER: Massive AT&T data breach exposes call logs of 109 million customers
Published July 19, 2024.
