AT&T has disclosed a significant data breach that compromised user information for nearly all of its mobile phone customers during a six-month period in 2022.
AT&T's T -0.48%decrease; red down pointing triangle disclosure Friday that a hacker downloaded call and text-message data from its subscribers raised questions about how its millions of customers would be affected.
AT&T says a suspect was apprehended in connection with the hack, which included numbers customers texted or called
AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) announced hackers illegally downloaded data from 109 million customers containing call and text records from 2022, but noted the content of messages and sensitive personal information such as social security numbers were not compromised.
AT&T (NYSE: T ) just disclosed that “nearly all” of its customers were impacted by a breach of 2022 data. As a result of the AT&T data breach, logs of the calls and texts of the company's customers were reportedly stolen.
AT&T (T) said Friday that call and text records from “nearly all” its cellular customers were compromised in a massive data breach in April, sending shares lower.
The stolen data does not include the content of users' phone calls or text messages.
AT&T says hackers stole call and text records from "nearly all" of its wireless customers. The data includes the phone numbers that customers interacted with.
The leak included call and message information on nearly all its wireless customers from 2022, the company said in a filing.
AT&T said Friday that data from about 109 million customer accounts containing records of calls and texts from 2022 was illegally downloaded in April.
AT&T Inc.'s stock fell 3% early Friday, after the telecommunications giant said hackers unlawfully accessed and copied call logs containing records of customer calls and texts from the period stretching from May 1 to Oct. 31, 2022, as well as on Jan. 2, 2023.
U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.