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The call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of millions of AT&T cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company ...
In a statement, AT&T said that the stolen data contains phone numbers of both cellular and landline customers, as well as AT&T records of calls and text messages — such as who contacted who by ...
AT&T is at the center of another data breach, according to a company press release. The release states that the record of all calls and texts was compromised for "nearly all of AT&T’s cellular ...
The telecommunications giant also recommended that customers forward suspicious text activity AT&T—a free service that does not count towards any text plan—and report fraud to AT&T’s fraud team.
AT&T said the stolen data included records like which phone numbers a certain customer called and texted, the total count of calls and texts, and call durations for a six-month period between May ...
But AT&T still hasn’t said how its customers’ data spilled online. The hacker, who first claimed in August 2021 to have stolen millions of AT&T customers’ data, only published a small sample ...
Phone fraud. Phone fraud, or more generally communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intention of illegally acquiring money from, or failing to pay, a telecommunication company or its customers. Many operators have increased measures to minimize fraud and reduce their losses.
Voice phishing, or vishing, [ 1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use modern Voice over IP ...