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AT&T probes data breach affecting millions of customers

Ryan Daws — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:57:45 +0000

AT&T announced on Saturday that it is investigating a major data breach involving the personal information of over 73 million current and former customer accounts. The company said a data set containing records on approximately 7.6 million existing AT&T accounts and 65.4 million former accounts was released on the dark web. According to AT&T’s preliminary... Read more »

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Russian hackers suspected of cyberattack exposing data of 40M citizens

Ryan Daws — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:05:28 +0000

A cyberattack targeting the UK Electoral Commission has exposed the data of up to 40 million citizens. British intelligence services have uncovered evidence linking the cyberattack to Russian hackers. The attack, described as a “complex cyber attack,” targeted the Electoral Commission’s computer systems, gaining unauthorised access to sensitive information. The breach was not detected until... Read more »

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Hackers steal the data of millions of AT&T customers

Ryan Daws — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:06:05 +0000

A vendor hack has resulted in the data of millions of AT&T customers being stolen. AT&T is sending emails to around nine million customers to alert them of the theft of their data. The attackers did not breach AT&T directly but compromised the systems of a marketing vendor used by the US telecom giant. All... Read more »

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T-Mobile suffers another large data breach

Ryan Daws — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:32:30 +0000

Tens of millions of T-Mobile customers have had their details stolen in the operator’s latest data breach. T-Mobile says it first identified malicious activity on 5 January 2023 and contained it within a day. However, the operator believes the hackers have been stealing data since 25 November 2022. Around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers... Read more »

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