{"id":2293415,"date":"2024-07-12T11:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/att-admits-its-network-was-breached-by-massive-hack-impacting-nearly-all-customers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:24:33","slug":"att-admits-its-network-was-breached-by-massive-hack-impacting-nearly-all-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/att-admits-its-network-was-breached-by-massive-hack-impacting-nearly-all-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Admits Its Network Was Breached by Massive Hack Impacting &#8216;Nearly All&#8217; Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatt-admits-its-network-was-breached-by-massive-hack-impacting-nearly-all-customers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2293415&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A huge breach of AT&#038;T&#8217;s \u2064network has exposed the\u200b call and text records of nearly all of \u2063the\u2062 telecom giant&#8217;s customers. The breach occurred between April \u206214 and April 25, 2024, \u2062and\u200c data \u200bstolen includes \u200dinformation\u2062 on customer call \u200cand text interactions. Personal information such\u200c as Social Security\u200b numbers and dates of birth does not\u2063 appear to have been compromised. The breach was discovered on April 19, and even though\u2064 the\u200d Department of Justice approved a delay in disclosure, AT&#038;T believes the stolen data\u2062 is not publicly available as of now. \u200bThe company is working with \u2063law enforcement\u200c and believes one person has been caught in connection \u200dwith the breach. This\u200c is not the first\u2063 breach for AT&#038;T this year, \u200bas the \u2064company previously experienced\u2063 a breach that affected\u200d about 70 million current and former customers, leading to the reissuing\u2064 of passcodes\u2064 for 7.6 million customers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 12, 2024 at 7:21am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>A huge breach of AT&#038;T\u2019s network has exposed the call and text records of nearly all of the telecom giant\u2019s customers.<\/p>\n<p>The company will notify about 110 million customers of the breach, AT&#038;T spokeswoman Andrea Huguely told <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/07\/12\/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/ix?doc=\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/0000732717\/000073271724000046\/t-20240506.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing<\/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission said AT&#038;T learned about the breach on April 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAT&#038;T believes that threat actors unlawfully accessed an AT&#038;T workspace on a third-party cloud platform and, between April 14 and April 25, 2024, exfiltrated files containing AT&#038;T records of customer call and text interactions that occurred between approximately May 1 and October 31, 2022, as well as on January 2, 2023,\u201d the filing said.<\/p>\n<p>The filing said the data stolen does not include the content of calls or texts.<\/p>\n<p>It also said personal information such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth did not appear to have been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>However, the filing said, the data includes \u201ccalls and texts of nearly all of AT&#038;T\u2019s wireless customers and customers of mobile virtual network operators (\u2018MVNO\u2019) using AT&#038;T\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-banks-discouraging-cash-deposits\/\" title=\"Report: Banks discouraging cash deposits\">wireless network<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese records identify the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/during-hillary-clintons-2016-presidential-run-epsteins-lawyer-asked-couple-who-had-managed-pedophile-island-to-swear-bill-clinton-was-never-there-report\/\" title=\"During Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 Presidential Run, Epstein\u2019s Lawyer Asked Couple Who Had Managed \u2018Pedophile Island\u2019 To Swear Bill Clinton Was Never There: Report\">telephone numbers<\/a> with which an AT&#038;T or MVNO wireless number interacted during these periods, including telephone numbers of AT&#038;T wireline customers and customers of other carriers, counts of those interactions, and aggregate call duration for a day or month,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The filing said that for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-hacker-claims-major-breach-critical-fbi-database-80000-people-affected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records stolen<\/a>, \u201cone or more cell site identification number(s) are also included.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although names are not in the stolen data, the company said \u201cthere are often ways, using publicly available online tools, to find the name associated with a specific telephone number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the breach was three months ago, AT&#038;T said in its filing that on May 9 and June 5, the Department of Justice approved a delay in disclosure.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SEC filing indicates DOJ allowed AT&#038;T to delay disclosure (twice), citing this national security exemption \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J26y076LVc\">pic.twitter.com\/J26y076LVc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZcohenCNN\/status\/1811756952185147736?\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The company said in its filing that it was working with law enforcement and believed one person had been caught in connection with the breach.<\/p>\n<p>AT&#038;T said it \u201cdoes not believe that the data is publicly available\u201d as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/att-addresses-illegal-download-of-customer-data-302195733.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a> on Friday, the company said that \u201ccustomer data was illegally downloaded from our workspace on a third-party cloud platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe launched an investigation and engaged leading cybersecurity experts to understand the nature and scope of the criminal activity. We have taken steps to close off the illegal access point,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>It said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-breaches-iran-affiliated-hackers-spanned-multiple-u-s-states-federal-agencies-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breached data<\/a> \u201cdoes not include some typical information you see in your usage details, such as the time stamp of calls or texts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AT&#038;T set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.att.com\/support\/article\/my-account\/000102979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web page<\/a> devoted to this breach.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the company\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/federal-reserve-breached-countless-americans-banking-secrets-held-ransom-hacking-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breach<\/a> this year. In March, AT&#038;T resent passcodes for 7.6 million customers after a breach affected about 70 million current and former customers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/12\/business\/att-data-breach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In that breach, the company said customer data that could have included Social Security numbers and customer names was put on the dark web.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. The 2024 election is the single most important election of our lifetime. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We here at The Western Journal are committed to covering it in a way the establishment media simply will not: We will tell the truth, and they will lie.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech and the elites don\u2019t want the truth out. 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Personal information such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth does not appear to have been compromised. AT&amp;T is working with law enforcement and believes one person has been caught in connection with the breach. The company has set up a web page dedicated to the breach and is urging customers to be vigilant. This is not the first breach AT&amp;T has experienced this year, as a previous breach in March affected millions of customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2293416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ATT-store.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24732,34804,34803,3749,34802],"class_list":["post-2293415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-att","tag-customer-impact","tag-data-breach","tag-hack","tag-network-breach"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ATT-store.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}