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AT&T rolls out “Wireless Lock” feature to block SIM swap attacks
AT&T has launched a new security feature called “Wireless Lock” that protects customers from SIM swapping attacks by preventing changes to their account information and the porting of phone numbers while the feature is enabled. This new feature has been available for some customers for almost a year and has now been rolled out to […]
Old AT&T data leak repackaged to link SSNs, DOBs to 49M phone numbers
A threat actor has re-released data from a 2021 AT&T breach affecting 70 million customers, this time combining previously separate files to directly link Social Security numbers and birth dates to individual users. AT&T told GeekFeed that they are investigating the data but also believe it originates from the known breach and was repackaged into […]
AT&T and Verizon say networks secure after Salt Typhoon breach
AT&T and Verizon confirmed they were breached in a massive Chinese espionage campaign targeting telecom carriers worldwide but said the hackers have now been evicted from their networks. “We have not detected threat actor activity in Verizon’s network for some time, and after considerable work addressing this incident, we can report that Verizon has contained the activities […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]