Earlier this month, leaked data of millions of current and former AT&T customers, including Social Security numbers, was posted on the dark web.
The breach prompted a “strong investigation by internal and external cybersecurity experts” at the telecom giant. said on saturday.
AT&T said the compromised data appeared to date back to before 2019 and included information on approximately 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former customers.
The compromised information may have included customers’ names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, dates of birth, AT&T account numbers, and passcodes.
“It is not yet clear whether the data in these areas originated from AT&T or one of its vendors,” the company said, adding that there is currently no evidence that the breach was caused by unauthorized access to its systems. added.
AT&T’s reset affected customers’ passwords after AT&T warned the company that vast amounts of data, including customer passwords, were dumped on the dark web, an information outlet, TechCrunch reported on Monday. report.
The company said it is reaching out to those affected by the breach to inform them of the information and content that was leaked. It offers Free identity theft and credit monitoring service.
The breach comes a month after millions of AT&T customers suffered a nationwide cell phone outage that left some customers without service for up to 12 hours.company blamed Software update interruption failed.
