Yet another AT&T hack. Who is being held accountable? Our leaders? Who's running this company?

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/12/att-breach-hack-mobile-customers

AT&T experienced a massive hack of user data for nearly all of its mobile phone customers in 2022, the company announced Friday.

Why it matters: The hack is one of the biggest private communications data breaches in recent history, per Bloomberg.

The stolen data includes "records of calls and texts of nearly all of AT&T's cellular customers," other customers using AT&T's wireless network, and "At&T's landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers between May 1, 2022 - October 31, 2022," AT&T said in a statement Friday.
The breach also included a data from a small portion of customers dating to early January 2023.
Driving the news: The company learned in April that hackers had successfully downloaded customer data from its third-party cloud service, per the statement.

The company initially disclosing the hack in a regulatory filing.
Zoom in: Hackers did not obtain the content of the calls or texts, users' personal information, or the time stamps of the calls or texts, AT&T said.

However, while customer names were not leaked, it is possible they could be gleaned using other publicly available tools, the company warned.
The big picture: AT&T said it is working with law enforcement and has "taken steps to close off the illegal access point."

"We understand that at least one person has been apprehended," the company added.

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How much is too much before any steps will be taken and heads start rolling? So many mishaps this year. T is getting bad reputation. Nobody is protecting ATT brand. Glad I left this ship.

Monkey say, monkey do.

We learned in April…. It’s July now. Are we deliberately spacing out communicating anything? Letting the media mongers do it? Great choice on using Snowflake or making any rational decisions around here.

ZERO accountability for anything. The VPs in CSO will all still receive a big bonus. It's bleeping ridiculous.

lol. Company is a joke. This is what happens when you outsource everything to India.

I think every citizen in the U.S. should be given LifeLock for life. It can be paid for by fining the companies who have massive data breaches.

I worked 26 years at AT&T before they decided that my position was no longer needed. I spent many years working with the individuals who worked for the companies to where AT&T outsourced its systems administration. I can tell you these individuals were not the most experienced and many times I had to walk them through how to fix their problems. Until congress determines to start holding companies criminally liable for these data breaches, it will continue to happen.

Wtf

“How many people do we have to surplus to offset that loss?”

Let’s start with Legg and work our way from there

Stock already lost 500 million in value this morning.

How many people do we have to surplus to offset that loss?

Rotate your passwords more! That will solve it! Do more password resets!

Legg

Another millennial ooopsie. Prolly forgot to change their password. Never happened when the boomers worked on these systems.

The fact that you have customer data on a 3rd party cloud service is the real story here. If you're serious about having he highest standard in data security, you dont farm it out to the lowest cost cloud provider.

L’eggscellent!

The Stink will get another $20M bonus! Cha-Ching!

Go Stink!

PS: You S U C K

Hacker was probably looking for the “culture survey” results or the Stankey ageism town hall.

It’s obvious now the company has underestimated the power and capabilities of its disgruntled employees.

There is an obvious correlation between all of AT&T’s issues and the company morale.

Was it worth it?

In the call center, the company pays people to search desks to ensure reps didn't write a phone number and customers name. This is really stupid. Meanwhile the data of millions is being leaked and somehow it's the reps who that need to policed.

Did T lose any government contracts as a result of the first data breach exposed?

Another reason to ditch ATT and move to other carrier. Better service, better price, better security.

"Breach linked to Snowflake"

Snowflake the darling of the company

Or maybe T sold that data to pay its debt?? Just saying.

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Yet another AT&T hack. Who is being held accountable? Our leaders? Who's running this company?

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