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Hackers Steal Phone Records of 'Nearly All' AT&T Customers
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Okay... can someone maybe explain this to me? I get these data breaches happen, too frequently, but how/why is it allowable, and/or acceptable, to take almost 2 years to tell your customers that's happened? And, I guess the previous statement is the lesser of two evils, because if it takes them nearly 2 years to figure out they were hacked, it makes sense why these data breaches occur so frequently.
Why do they have access to this, anyway? Why isn't it secure on the devices themselves and why is it stored?
The data breach didn't happen 2 years ago. The data that was stolen was from 2022. AT&T learned about it in April this year. That's not an excuse by the way, waiting 3 months to tell your customers is unacceptable.
Data privacy is a myth. If you don’t want it public that you’re calling/texting someone, then don’t call/text them.
They don’t truly care for one thing, same with the credit agencies. People have no choice but to deal with them, and they have enough political coverage that they will never truly suffer from any consequences.
And the other thing is of course money. Our data is used for monetization so it gets passed around. As long as everyone says they are complying with the security checklists nobody cares until they get hacked. And again, even then, no real consequences. All of this has happened before, all of it will happen again.
The Yahoo mail breach was worse as it wasn't just about stolen email addresses but also included things like passwords, birth dates, security questions and answers, etc.
Please explain to me how somebody steals my identity by having my phone number?
BTW, even before this breech you can easily obtain somebodies phone number via the web. Not hard.
Yes, absolutely harmless...reality is, people want to make this out to be a bigger deal than it actually is. People love to complain about anything and everything; must live miserable lives. The world we live in.
Apple still hasn't explained how apple users in Hungary got unexplained charges: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...es-affecting-iphone-users-in-hungary.2430178/
I believe AT&T is claiming that law enforcement agencies asked them to delay public disclosure while initial investigations were ongoing.
So, you think they'll just pay it out of their bank account, and wont pass the cost of that fine down to its customers?
Everyone gets excited about big fines, without realizing that we the customers ultimately pay them.
What the person or persons did is against the law meaning they was involved in a criminal act ergo they are a criminal.
A Credit Freeze on all information should be the default. But the credit report agencies are fighting this because they make their money selling our credit information to the banks and CC companies. With everything getting hacked all the time a credit freeze the 1st way to protect 'some' of your private info. 2nd is strong passwords (changed regularly) and using some type of 2FA. Everyone has to assume that your data has already been breached multiple times. Unfortunately the firms responsible for the laps in security are never held responsible or accountable.
Gotta get the right cloud. I wonder why it hasn’t been disclosed yet which Cloud service got hacked.
Perhaps they didn’t chose the right provider.
The telephone numbers were included in the leak along with the telephone number associated to the call/text, so says the NYT, WSJ, and CNN.
With your telephone number your name can be found. With your name found your address can be found, with your address found lot's of other information about you can be found. Do not have a closed mind when it comes to data breaches because that is what criminals are hoping for.
Just to be sure, google your phone number (and those numbers who you called and texted) to see if you can find anything the leads to your/their identity.
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I don't care what data was compromised. It doesn't matter. My data was compromised so they need to pay dearly and struggle for their very survival.Did you read the article? See what data was compromised?
Good. Let it put them out of business and let it be the lesson for any other company who treat customer fraud like this as a walk in the park. The way to make businesses bet their existence on their infrastructure is to take down a company like ATT to prove it's not a joke. Right now it's treated as a joke.