AT&T reportedly gave $370,000 to a hacker to delete its stolen customer data

AT&T reportedly negotiated done an intermediary, called Reddington, acting connected behalf of a subordinate of the ShinyHunters hacking group. The hacker primitively asked for $1 cardinal earlier AT&T talked them down to the amount, which it paid connected May 17th successful bitcoin, Wired writes.

The outlet reports that Reddington, whom AT&T paid for his portion successful negotiations, said helium believes the lone implicit transcript of the information had been deleted aft AT&T paid the ransom, but that it’s imaginable excerpts are inactive successful the wild. Reddington besides reportedly said helium negotiated with respective different companies for the hackers, too.

Before AT&T announced the breach, it was reported that Ticketmaster and Santander Bank were besides compromised, via the stolen login credentials of an worker of third-party unreality retention institution Snowflake. Wired reports that, aft the Ticketmaster attack, hackers utilized a publication to hack potentially much than 160 companies simultaneously.