Telecommunications giant AT&T announced on Saturday that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after determining that compromised customer data had been “exposed to the dark web.”
AT&T said its “internal team is working with external cybersecurity experts to analyze the situation.” “To our knowledge, the compromised data appears to date back to his pre-2019 years and does not include any personal financial information or call history.”
“Information varies by customer and account,” the company said, and included an individual's name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number, and passcode. He said it was possible.
In addition to these 7.6 million customers, 65.4 million former account holders were also affected.
The company said it will “individually contact individuals whose sensitive personal information has been compromised and provide free identity theft and credit monitoring services.”
AT&T said it has reset the passcodes of affected users and directed customers to a site with details on how to do so.
TechCrunch, which first reported on the passcode reset, told AT&T on Monday that “the leaked data includes encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T customer accounts. He said that he had notified him that the
TechCrunch said it delayed publication of the article until the company “can begin resetting passcodes for customer accounts.”
“Nearly three years after hackers claimed to have stolen 73 million AT&T customer records, AT&T has acknowledged that the leaked data belonged to its own customers,” TechCrunch said in a report. This is the first time.”
AT&T said it does not know whether the leaked data “came from AT&T or its vendors” and there is “no evidence of unauthorized access to its systems that resulted in the theft of the data sets.”