April 10, 2024 at 12:12PM
AT&T has informed the Maine attorney general that a data breach has impacted over 51 million individuals, less than the initial 73 million reported. The leaked data includes personal information such as names, addresses, social security numbers, and more, with affected customers offered one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services.
Based on the meeting notes, the key takeaways are:
– AT&T has confirmed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million individuals, which is a reduction from the initially reported 73 million.
– The leaked data includes a wide range of personal information such as full names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, and AT&T account numbers and passcodes, with the company suggesting that personal financial information and call history were not compromised.
– The compromised information belongs to approximately 7.6 million current customers and about 65.4 million former customers, with the data being from 2019 or earlier.
– AT&T is denying that the leaked data originated from its own systems and it has been circulating online since 2021, but its source remains unknown.
– AT&T is offering affected customers one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services.
– In a separate incident in March 2023, AT&T notified 9 million wireless customers that their customer proprietary network information (CPNI) was compromised in a data breach at a third-party vendor.