AT&T says criminals stole records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach \ stacker news ~security

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AT&T says criminals stole records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/

1707 sats \ 22 comments \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 12 Jul 2024 security

Looks like another company that had user data on Snowflake.

Also of note:

The stolen data also includes call records of customers with phone service from other cell carriers that rely on AT&T’s network, the company said.

So folks on smaller networks or on something that uses multiple networks like Google Fi also probably got breached.

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268 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 12 Jul 2024

The snowflake breach keeps on giving.

24 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 12 Jul 2024

I doubt this will impact At&t too much. I've listened it's a giant in US

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @SwapMarket 12 Jul 2024

I live in the EU, and from this year my mobile receives a dozen spam calls every day. Most get blocked by google, but I still get annoying notifications. It has never been so bad (( I think AI makes it super easy to setup cold calling, with worse still to come. I wish I could disable mobile number and use it only for internet.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @02bcd3eeb0 13 Jul 2024

Data only esim ftw! People want to reach you - give them an email address, if they insist on a number make it something like a gvoice number - notifications via email only for text and voice.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 12 Jul 2024

Plot twist: AT&T were the criminals.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 12 Jul 2024

Great! This should be noted as the biggest robbery in history!!

13 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 12 Jul 2024

Ticketmaster had a breach earlier this week. I don't know if it was just ticketmaster Canada but I received an email about the breach.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 12 Jul 2024

I sold some seats on TM on Tuesday. I checked my account to check when payment was in progress: June 5, 2079

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 12 Jul 2024

Right around the corner.

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatsMate 12 Jul 2024

Wow 165 customers exposed. Did snowflake make a statement on the issue or the vulnerability?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 12 Jul 2024

They've been blaming customers for not using MFA.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 12 Jul 2024

In a world where calls and text messages are free, why were these records being kept? That data is just a liability.

13 sats \ 8 replies \ @freetx 12 Jul 2024

One of the benefits of running your own mail server, is I can (on the fly) assign custom email addresses for my account. So I have a username.att@domain.com for my ATT accound. In the past 2 months I now regularly get phishing emails sent to my ATT email....

23 sats \ 6 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 12 Jul 2024

You can also do this with most(?) email providers by appending a +name like freetx+att@gmail.com. Some apps probably don’t allow this, but many do

13 sats \ 3 replies \ @SwapMarket 12 Jul 2024

wow, thanks. just tested with my gmail and it worked. but what to do with such single-use emails? report to the police everyone who sold/leaked my email address? I doubt they care.