AT&T breach leaked call and text records from ‘nearly all’ wireless customers

AT&T revealed Friday morning that a cybersecurity onslaught had exposed telephone records and texts from “nearly all” of the carrier’s cellular customers (including radical connected MVNOs that usage AT&T’s network, similar Cricket, Boost Mobile, and Consumer Cellular) during the play betwixt May 1st, 2022, and October 31st, 2022, arsenic good arsenic a “very tiny number” of customers connected January 2nd, 2023.

AT&T spokesperson Alex Byers confirmed to The Verge the menace histrion accessed the accusation done the company’s relationship connected a third-party unreality platform, Snowflake, akin to information breaches that person affected Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. AT&T archetypal learned of the breach successful April, but as reported by TechCrunch, an FBI spokesperson confirmed “AT&T, the FBI and the Department of Justice agreed to hold notifying the nationalist and customers connected 2 occasions, citing ‘potential risks to nationalist information and/or nationalist safety.’”

The stolen information includes which telephone numbers customers interacted with, and Byers tells The Verge that the breach besides includes “counts of those calls/texts and full telephone durations for circumstantial days oregon months.”

While the information doesn’t see lawsuit names, determination are often ways to find a sanction associated with a telephone fig utilizing publically disposable online tools.

In a blog post, AT&T said “we bash not judge that the information is publically available” and that it has “taken steps to adjacent disconnected the amerciable entree point.” The institution is moving with instrumentality enforcement to “arrest those involved” and says 1 idiosyncratic has already been apprehended.

“We volition supply announcement to existent and erstwhile customers whose accusation was progressive on with resources to assistance support their information,” AT&T writes. “We sincerely regret this incidental occurred and stay committed to protecting the accusation successful our care.”