21 Nov, 2024

AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform

Multiple U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, have been breached by a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon, the Wall Street Journal reports. The purpose of the attack appears to be for intelligence collection as the hackers might have had access to systems used by the U.S. federal government for court-authorized […]

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AT&T pays $13 million FCC settlement over 2023 data breach

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reached a $13 million settlement with AT&T to resolve a probe into whether the telecom giant failed to protect customer data after a vendor’s cloud environment was breached three years ago. The FCC’s investigation also examined AT&T’s supply chain integrity and whether the telecom giant engaged in poor privacy […]

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Hackers Downloaded Call Logs from Cloud Platform in AT&T Breach

Telecommunications giant AT&T has revealed that customer data has been illegally downloaded by threat actors. Hackers have downloaded the data from AT&T’s its workspace on a third-party cloud platform, the company confirmed in a statement published on July 12. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company first learned […]

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