BREAKING: U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will notify millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone and text records of "nearly all" of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.
AT&T confirmed the breach was linked to a data theft at cloud data giant Snowflake. AT&T said the data breach affects at least 110 million AT&T customers.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/
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.
FBI has not commented on the arrest — yet.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/
"AT&T said the stolen data “does not contain the content of calls or texts,” but does include calling and texting records that an AT&T phone number interacted with during the six-month period, as well as the total count of a customer’s calls and texts, and call durations — information that is often referred to as metadata. The stolen data does not include the time or date of calls or texts, AT&T said"
Man, John's gonna be pissed...
And you get to find out about it, as a customer, 2 years later.
Never. One good solution is for non-USA businesses and individuals to just stop using US-based services.
Our regulations now are just decorative due to the recent Supreme Court ruling and all that is left, is for the right cases to file up so businesses can do whatever they want.
@zackwhittaker @Sarahp “Snowflake allows its corporate customers, like tech companies and telcos, to analyze huge amounts of customer data in the cloud. It’s not clear for what reason AT&T was storing customer data in Snowflake, and the spokesperson would not say.”
I’m not seeing much difference between corporate customers, tech companies and telcos having access to this data vs. actual criminals. (1/2)
AT&T funds an anti-democracy movement.
The data breach and the funding for the GOP are not necessarily separate.
Republican megadonors like monetizing crisis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/atandt-ceo-hiring-cohen-as-a-consultant-was-a-big-mistake/2018/05/11/243f57f2-554a-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html
https://www.fastcompany.com/90999443/atts-political-donations-report-is-most-notable-for-everything-it-leaves-out
https://www.newsweek.com/t-top-donor-lawmakers-who-voted-overturn-2020-election-1714437
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/03/23/dallas-based-att-pledged-to-cut-funding-to-gop-objectors-after-jan-6-but-gave-to-pacs-tied-to-them/
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/563541-watchdog-says-att-gave-over-100k-to-abbott-gop/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/top-election-donors-2022/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/att-paul-singer-trump-gop-donor/index.html
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/how-come-att-just-gave-money-to-radical-right-wing-insurrectionists/
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/trump-att-tax-bonuses-merger-308656
@zackwhittaker Oh. Oh My.
*Munches Popcorn*
@zackwhittaker I'm most amused by AT&T calling *anyone* criminal.
Also, "Criminal Corporation loses Customer data...Again" is an equally accurate headline.
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