AT&T says a massive trove of data impacting 71 million people did not originate from its systems after a hacker leaked it on a cybercrime forum and claimed it was stolen in a 2021 breach of the company.
  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    BleepingComputer asked AT&T if it was possible the data came from a third-party service provider or vendor but has not received a response at this time.

    That was my thought: AT&T didn’t get breached and leak the customer data of 71 million themselves. They merely sold that data to a third party who got breached and leaked the customer data of 71 million people.

    • swayevenly@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      So this was pretty old and customers got notified by AT&T that it was a 3rd party vendor they were selling data to.