AT&T mentioned it has begun notifying thousands and thousands of consumers concerning the theft of private knowledge not too long ago found on-line.
The telecommunications big mentioned Saturday {that a} dataset discovered on the “darkish net” incorporates info resembling Social Safety numbers for about 7.6 million present AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account holders.
The corporate mentioned it has already reset the passcodes of present customers and can be speaking with account holders whose delicate private info was compromised.
It’s not recognized if the information “originated from AT&T or one in all its distributors,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement. The compromised knowledge is from 2019 or earlier and doesn’t seem to incorporate monetary info or name historical past, it mentioned. Along with passcodes and Social Safety numbers, it might embrace e mail and mailing addresses, cellphone numbers and beginning dates.
It’s not the primary disaster this yr for the Dallas-based firm.
New York prosecutors mentioned they’re opening an investigation right into a wi-fi community outage in February that left thousands of AT&T customers throughout the U.S. with out cellphone service for roughly 12 hours.
The outage, which additionally affected some Shopper Mobile, T-Cell, UScellular and Verizon subscribers, led to widespread frustration by cellphone customers and briefly disrupted 911 service in some communities.
AT&T apologized for the community disruption and supplied a $5 credit to customers.