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PII = Personally Identifiable Information, eg social securities and shit.

AT&T says hacker stole some data from 'nearly all' wireless customers

AT&T has announced that a hacker stole records of calls and texts of nearly all of AT&T’s wireless customers, according to a statement from the company.

abcnews.go.com

AT&T has announced that the company believes a hacker stole records of calls and texts from nearly all of AT&T’s wireless customers, according to a financial filing from the company.

“The data does not contain the content of calls or texts, personal information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or other personally identifiable information,” AT&T said in their statement released early Friday morning. “These records identify the telephone numbers with which an AT&T or MVNO wireless number interacted during these periods, including telephone numbers of AT&T wireline customers and customers of other carriers, counts of those interactions, and aggregate call duration for a day or month.”

AT&T says it has taken “additional cybersecurity measures” in response to this incident including closing off the point of unlawful access.

AT&T confirmed that it will provide notice to its current and former impacted customers.

 

[ManaByte]

“The data does not contain the content of calls or texts, personal information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or other personally identifiable information,”

 

[adamsapple]

M ManaByte our dick pics are safe.

 

[Ownage]

Companies, like political groups, always lie and deny. For years I was one of the strategists who came up with good excuses for certain teams. I wouldn't trust anything from AT&T's blanket denial. All that does is attempt to throttle a cascade of liability claims. Big pocket ballaz or class action claims could still pursue lawsuits if they had a bone to pick.

Dudes, prepay is the way to go. No SSN or ID needed, and you can opt out from saving any payment information. I understand that plans mean cheaper phones, but when the carrier gets megaowned like this, you get owned.

 

[adamsapple]

Dudes, prepay is the way to go. No SSN or ID needed, and you can opt out from saving any payment information. I understand that plans mean cheaper phones, but when the carrier gets megaowned like this, you get owned.

I swapped from AT&T to Mint last year. Costs less, no perceptible difference in service quality and cheaper for me to just buy a mid-range unlocked Android separately. And, yeah, like you said. Pre-paid for multiple lines for the whole year, one and done.

 

[Ownage]

"Nearly all" of AT&T's over 110 million customers' call and text interactions exposed in "hack." — CNN

Sounds like customer data was compromised.

 

[poppabk]

"Nearly all" of AT&T's over 110 million customers' call and text interactions exposed in "hack." — CNN

Sounds like customer data was compromised.

Not the stuff you would normally be concerned about. Could be embarrassing in some situations if someone made a searchable database and could provide some marginal use in phone scams but overall they were very lucky if the scope is accurate.

 

[jason10mm]

M ManaByte our dick pics are safe.

But not the records that ya'll text back and forth each night, furiously, but only for 5-10 minutes

 

[AJUMP23]

ATT will probably charge me extra for this.

 

[CoreyFlawless]

I went to spectrum just a few months ago. Was on att.

 

[Ownage]

Not the stuff you would normally be concerned about. Could be embarrassing in some situations if someone made a searchable database and could provide some marginal use in phone scams but overall they were very lucky if the scope is accurate.

These days China, NK and other sponsored actors are scooping up as much data as they possibly can. Relevancy and data quality is less important in the long run so long as the capability to identify trends can be exercised, especially in identifying relationships and associations.