Get the latest tech news

AT&T pays a hacker $400k to purge stolen phone records

ALBAWABA - Massive US telecom company, AT&T, reportedly paid a hacker about $370,000 to erase stolen sensitive user data and produce a video showing evi

ALBAWABA - Massive US telecom company, AT&T, reportedly paid a hacker about $370,000 to erase stolen sensitive user data and produce a video showing evidence of deletion after it was revealed on Friday that hackers had obtained call information belonging to tens of millions of its customers in massive cyber-attack. In an SEC filing earlier on Friday, AT&T disclosed that an internal investigation found that hackers stole six months of call and text message information of virtually every cellular network user from a third-party cloud service in April. Chris Janczewski, head of global investigations for crypto-tracing firm TRM Labs, verified using the company's tracking program that a transaction with an amount of 5.72 bitcoins (equal to $373,646 at the time) was observed, WIRED adds, and that the funds have been laundered via multiple cryptocurrency trading platforms and wallets.

Get the Android app