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Zack Whittaker Jul 12, 2024

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 says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach | TechCrunch

The stolen data includes 110 million AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and some location-related data.

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Sesame Creek Jul 12, 2024

@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)

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Sesame Creek

I have little doubt that Snowflake would sell access to *anyone* for the right amount of money. That would include criminals. And nowadays, I don’t see a lot of difference between “corporate customers” and criminals. (2/2)