- AT&T is investigating new claims about a data violation
- The data was published on a violation forum and includes Straintext’s SSNS
- It may be new or could be a reissue of older data
AT&T examines a leak of data on a cybercrime forum, but with some skepticism that some have suggested that it may just be a re -release of a previous data violation.
The data of data includes 88 million customer items, but 86 million of these are unique, including personal information such as birth dates, telephone numbers, E -email addresses, physical addresses.
What makes this violation potentially dangerous is that the data is very organized and includes 44 million plaintext social security numbers that can be used to commit fraud and identity theft.
Just a re -release or something more creepy?
The Hackread research team first discovered the files on May 15, with the same collection of data that will appear again on June 3 and spread to several other leaks and forums since then.
There is some debate about the origin of the data, where hackread finds similarities between encrypted and plaintext values from the collection that could bind them to AT&T violations that used snowflake -vulnerability.
On the other hand, it may be a re-release of a previous violation or a combination of one of the many AT&T violations.
For example, in 2024, AT&T confirmed that the data from 51 million customers had been stolen after previously denying that the data was stolen from AT&T systems.
The data was originally stolen in 2021. The famous snowflake vulnerability baker in 2024 also saw customer data stolen from AT&T, where the company then negotiated and paid $ 300,000 in Bitcoin to one of the hackers to delete the data.
The main points are that the data includes almost everything a cyber criminal would need to commit fraud or steal an identity, making identity theft protection and credit monitoring a good choice for those who are potentially affected by the violation.
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