AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers
Item 1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incidents. On April 19, 2024, AT&T Inc. … AT&T : AT&T Addresses Illegal Download of Customer Data CNN : Nearly all AT&T cell customers' call and text records exposed in a massive breach Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers Gabe Hauari / USA Today : How to know if you were affected by the AT&T data breach and what to do next Emma Roth / The Verge : AT&T breach leaked call and text records from ‘nearly all’ wireless customers Kurt Knutsson / Fox News : Here's what ruthless hackers stole from 130M AT&T customers Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : What the AT&T phone records data breach means for you David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW : Dozens of federal agencies' call data potentially exposed in AT&T breach Joseph Cox / 404 Media : Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customers Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Nearly all AT&T subscribers' call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack Bloomberg : AT&T Data Hack Prompts FCC Probe, Raises Broad Security Concerns Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : AT&T admits that hackers stole ‘nearly all’ customers' phone records Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Massive AT&T data breach exposes call logs of 109 million customers ABC News : AT&T says hacker stole some data from ‘nearly all’ wireless customers Jay Bonggolto / Android Central : AT&T data breach compromised phone records of nearly all its customers Michael Shonk / The Mobile Report : AT&T, Boost, Consumer Cellular, And More Impacted By Data Breach Omar Gallaga / CNET : Latest AT&T Data Breach Hits ‘Nearly All’ Cellular Customers: What to Know Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Break-in at ‘third-party cloud platform’ leaked 110M customer records, says AT&T CNBC : AT&T says hackers stole records of nearly all cellular customers' calls and texts Aaron Gregg / Washington Post : AT&T says hacker stole data on ‘nearly all’ of its wireless customers Ann Resuma / International Business Times : AT&T Data Breach Exposes Millions Of Users' Call, Text Records Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal : AT&T Says Hacker Stole Data on Nearly All Its Wireless Customers Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Hackers Steal Phone Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customers Patrick Smith / NBC News : AT&T says hackers stole records of nearly all cell customers' calls and texts Tech Xplore : US mobile giant AT&T suffers fresh massive data theft Michael Tsai / mjtsai.com : Huge AT&T Data Breach Hank Sanders / New York Times : Are You an AT&T Customer? Here's What to Know About the Data Breach. David Shepardson / Reuters : AT&T says data from around 109 mln US customer accounts illegally downloaded Cal Jeffrey / TechSpot : AT&T discloses another massive data breach containing phone records of “nearly all” its customers Daniel Levi / Tech Startups : AT&T Hacked: AT&T confirms hackers stole records of 109 million US customers in a massive data breach Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : New AT&T data breach exposed call logs of almost all customers John Johnson / Newser : The AT&T Hack: ‘Yeah, This Is Really Bad’ John Gruber / Daring Fireball : AT&T Only Learned of Massive 2022 Data Breach This April; Delayed Revealing It at the Request of U.S. Law Enforcement WATE-TV : How to safeguard personal information after AT&T reveals hack Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : AT&T discloses data breach affecting ‘nearly all’ cellular customers Grace Dean / Business Insider : AT&T says hackers stole the call and text records of almost all of its wireless customers Artie Beaty / ZDNet : AT&T suffers another major data breach, this one affecting ‘nearly all’ wireless customers Megan Crouse / TechRepublic : Massive AT&T Hack Exposed ‘Nearly All’ Customer Phone Numbers Monica Alleven / Fierce Network : AT&T cell, text records exposed in massive breach Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian : Hackers stole call and text message records on ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers, company says Jasper Hamill / The Stack : Is Snowflake the ‘third-party cloud platform’ caught up in massive AT&T data heist? Jason Cross / Macworld : Massive AT&T data breach exposes records of nearly all its customers' calls and texts Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo : Cybercriminals Stole Text and Call Records From ‘Nearly All’ of AT&T's Customers Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading : AT&T is working with authorities to track down ‘threat actors’ … Kyle Alspach / CRN : Massive AT&T Breach Linked To Snowflake Attacks: Report Roger Fingas / Pocket-lint : AT&T says an attack leaked call and text records for ‘nearly all’ its customers Waqas / Hackread : AT&T Data Breach: Hackers Steal Call and Text Records for “Nearly All” Customers Steve Zurier / SC Media : Massive AT&T breach linked to cloud IT service provider Snowflake Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : AT&T: ‘nearly all’ of your phone records were leaked in data breach Kellen / Droid Life : AT&T Had a Big Data Breach for “Nearly All” Customers Martin Hodás / Neowin : Nearly all AT&T cellular customers affected by massive data theft. Here is what you can do River Hart / TechRadar : AT&T just suffered one of the worst data breaches in years - and nobody's safe Harry Baldock / Total Telecom : AT&T data breach leaked “nearly all” of its customers mobile numbers iClarified : Major AT&T Hack: Phone Call and Text Records of ‘Nearly All’ Customers Stolen Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : AT&T data breach includes records of ‘nearly all’ cell customers Alex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com : AT&T loses ‘nearly all’ phone records in Snowflake breach Lawrence Bonk / Engadget : Massive AT&T data breach impacted nearly every single customer Christian Vasquez / CyberScoop : Phone, text message records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers stolen Sumit Adhikari / Android Headlines : AT&T data breach exposed call and text records of “nearly all” customers Greg Noone / Tech Monitor : AT&T breach sees an estimated 109 million customers' call logs leaked Chris Morris / Fortune : Hackers steal data on virtually all of AT&T's wireless customers Laura Bratton / Quartz : A massive AT&T hack exposed ‘nearly all’ customers' phone numbers and call logs PYMNTS.com : AT&T Says Call, Text Records of ‘Nearly All’ Customers Stolen Matt Milano / WebProNews : AT&T Breach Impacts ‘Nearly All’ Customers' Call and Text Records The Hill : AT&T security breach exposes call, text data from almost all customers Rachel Treisman / NPR : AT&T says hackers stole 2022 call and text data from ‘nearly all’ cell customers Richi Jennings / Security Boulevard : AT&T Says 110M Customers' Data Leaked — Yep, it's Snowflake Again Pranob Mehrotra / Android Authority : Are you on AT&T? Hackers now know who you called or texted Ali Salman / Wccftech : AT&T Faces A Massive Data Breach As Hackers Steal Phone Records Of Nearly All Customers Mathew J. Schwartz / InfoRiskToday.com : AT&T Details Massive Breach of Customers' Call and Text Logs Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Massive AT&T data breach sees hackers steal personal data of almost all customers Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider : Nearly every AT&T customer just had six months of call logs stolen Jessica Schladebeck / New York Daily News : AT&T reveals hackers stole call, text data from ‘nearly all’ customers in 2022 Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News : AT&T Suffers Massive Data Breach Leaking Call & Text Records Ivana Saric / Axios : Massive AT&T hack compromises phone, text records of “nearly all” customers Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : Hackers stole call, text records of “nearly all” of AT&T's cellular customers Kate Irwin / PCMag : AT&T: ‘Nearly All’ Customer Phone, Text Records Leaked, One Arrest Made Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary : AT&T discloses a data breach affecting nearly all customers Jack Purcher / Patently Apple : AT&T Customers wake up to Disturbing News that their Accounts have been Hacked Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : AT&T data for ‘nearly all’ customers breached Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : AT&T And Snowflake Stocks Slide On Friday - What's Going On Threads: @eshumarneedi : I truly don't understand how the telecom industry gets away with stuff like this. Every single customer! How is that even possible? This is worse than three Boeing planes falling apart or Microsoft's questionable security practices. Literally every single phone and text message log from every AT&T customer has leaked. … Josh Billinson / @jbillinson : When the $7 “AT&T BREACH SETTLEMENT” Venmo notification hits five years from now Josh Billinson / @jbillinson : As an AT&T customer who almost exclusively uses iMessage, I am deeply concerned that this hacker will believe I am a recluse with no friends who only ever gets texts about Amazon and DoorDash deliveries. Mastodon: @mhoye@mastodon.social : It's underappreciated how permanent an identifier your phone number is. — Outside the poorest 10% of society, people are _more likely to change their names_ than their phone numbers. — So, whoever's got this data also has an approximately perfect social map of AT&T's customers. … BrianKrebs / @briankrebs@infosec.exchange : ICYMI, AT&T has acknowledged that cyber thieves stole basically the phone bills for all of their customers. The data includes information you would see on a phone bill, including the source and destination of calls on your AT&T mobile device(s), and the same for SMS messages. … Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social : AT&T said in its statement that “at least one person has been apprehended” following the data breach. AT&T said the person was not an employee. — Incident response firm Mandiant is tracking the crime crew behind the Snowflake account breaches as UNC5537, a financially motivated threat group with members in North America and at least one member in Turkey. … X: @fcc : We have an ongoing investigation into the AT&T breach and we' re coordinating with our law enforcement partners. @autismcapital : ATT hack highlights the importance for encrypted messaging apps like Signal and others. Using them does not make you a criminal, it makes you someone who values themselves and has self agency to protect their lives. Chris Krebs / @c_c_krebs : Noteworthy here: AT&T received a National Security Exception from DOJ under the SEC Reporting Requirements. First such exception I'm aware of. [image] Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : It is mind boggling how many breaches are due to hackers breaking to Snowflake accounts. Ticketmaster. Santander. Now AT&T call records. Mandiant found hundreds of Snowflake credentials exposed. It really can be as easy as go to Telegram, use creds https://www.404media.co/... [image] Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : AT&T says it learned of the breach in April. It found hackers had broken into a third-party cloud service used by the telecom giant (AT&T told me it was Snowflake, the center of an ever increasing number of high profile breaches). Here is what AT&T said https://www.404media.co/... [image] Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Senator Ron Wyden says these breaches will keep happening until telecoms face billions of dollars of fines for their cybersecurity mistakes. Points to the FCC https://www.404media.co/... [image] Bijan / @bijanstephen : every day there's a new headline like this. nobody will face any consequences, and there's nothing you can do about it. to be american is to be powerless before megacorporations and bad actors. you have no rights they are bound to respect, and no recourse when you're fucked John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : @ATT @SnowflakeDB 4/ Americans have grown numb to breach notifications. The @ATT breach is so bad it should wake everyone up. Unless big telcos face massive financial penalties for these megabreaches, they will continue. Shashank Joshi / @shashj : Incredible sensitive data. This is what the NSA did with US phone meta-data more than a decade ago through MAINWAY, a contact-chaining system. https://www.electrospaces.net/ ... See also @RidT's description of the system here https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image] @dystopiabreaker : the best way to avoid catastrophic data breaches is to not collect mass data Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : FBI confirms in a statement just now that it worked with AT&T to delay announcement of the breach due to national security and/or public safety concerns. During this time, AT&T and FBI investigated, shared intelligence https://www.404media.co/... [image] Ali / @merrux : @josephfcox Why was att letting this data out unencrypted? Makes me wonder what else was stoken from snowflake @jeremybiltz : Not great, Bob. Not my mobile carrier, but incredibly concerning. Also... SMS is basically open text in the air. Never send important or sensitive info via text. Use a secure app. Bob / @bob_hlbok : Honestly, at this point, it's a very thin line between data breach and 3rd party business parties. @bax1337 : use signal. Jose Pino / @jofpin : As time goes by, I am completely sure that cybersecurity will be the next bubble within the next 36 months. Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly intense. https://x.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for “nearly all” AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it https://www.404media.co/... @benlovejoy : Includes details of who called or messaged whom during a six-month period ... Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : Hope no one looks at my call logs and sees how unpopular I really am..... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Every week, there's a revelation of a data breach or ransomware payment made by an institution critical to daily life. Telcos, banks, hospitals, etc. It's depressing to realize that practically every database with our private data is available on the dark web for a price. [image] Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob : “one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent memory” https://www.bloomberg.com/... LinkedIn: Runa Sandvik : I spoke to Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai about the AT&T data breach. 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