- AT&T reset passcodes after a massive customer data breach surfaced on the dark web.
- The company said the breach affected 7.6 million current account holders and 65 million former account holders.
- The data included names, email addresses, social security numbers, and other personal information.
AT&T is contacting millions of customers after their personal information, including Social Security numbers, was leaked on the dark web.
AT&T reset passwords for millions of customer accounts after Techcrunch notified the company on Monday that passcodes were included in a massive breach of customer data posted on the dark web, the report said. Reported.
The massive data dump that surfaced this month appears to be user information from 2019, the company said in a statement. AT&T said it conducted a “robust investigation by internal and external cybersecurity experts” after learning of the breach and found no evidence of “unauthorized access” that could have caused the breach.
“Based on our preliminary analysis, this data set appears to date from before 2019 and impacts approximately 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders,” AT&T said. Stated.
According to Techcrunch, the leak contains encrypted passcodes for millions of user accounts that can be easily cracked. AT&T said the breach also included Social Security numbers. The company said it is contacting affected customers and offering to cover credit monitoring “where applicable.”
AT&T said in a safety notice on its customer support page that the data compromised varies by account, but includes name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number, and passcode. It states that there is a possibility that
AT&T recommended that affected customers reset their passwords and set up free fraud alerts at the nation’s three credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
News of the data breach followed a nationwide cell phone service outage for millions of AT&T customers that lasted nearly 12 hours in February. AT&T said the outage was caused by a glitch in a software update, not a cyberattack.
White House Press Secretary John Kirby said in February that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security were investigating the cause of the failure. The company issued he $5 credits to customers who lost service during the outage.
