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Thousands of internet-facing devices vulnerable to Check Point VPN zero-day

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed that the bug is being used in attacks and researchers have seen a spike in exploitation attempts throughout the week.

“Free credit monitoring” has turned into the AOL free minutes CD of this generation.
“What information was involved?
The information varied by customer and account, but may have included full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number, and passcode.”
This sounds like a lot more than just passcodes.
7.6M AT&T customer passcodes compromised, but according to the FAQ it could be much worse;
https://www.att.com/support/article/my-account/000101995
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