BrianKrebsJul 12, 2024

ICYMI, AT&T has acknowledged that cyber thieves stole basically the phone bills for all of their customers. The data includes information you would see on a phone bill, including the source and destination of calls on your AT&T mobile device(s), and the same for SMS messages.

AT&T said it delayed disclosing the breach "on national security and public safety concerns." And we're learning now that the FBI has confirmed this.

AT&T's SEC filing says some cellular site tower information is also among the data accessed by the intruders, which could be used to determine the approximate location of where a call was made or text message sent.

This raises an important question: Was the AT&T customer data stolen from a law enforcement portal set up by AT&T? Sure seems like it.

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.

TechCrunch
Show thread0bondo7Jul 12, 2024
@briankrebs I thought t mobile was bad with security
Show threadDavid CollantesJul 12, 2024
@0bondo7 @briankrebs well, T-Mobile leaked my name, Social Security number, and date of birth 😬. My credit is frozen because of it. I think I would take AT&T data breach instead any day.
Show threadGreg Kemp
@david @0bondo7 @briankrebs AT&T had it's own doxxing event last year. The phone data leak is the cherry on top.
Jul 12, 2024 at 6:04pmWeb