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AT&T reportedly gave $370,000 to a hacker to delete its stolen customer data
The hackers originally wanted $1 million.
AT&T paid a hacker about $370,000 to delete customer data that was stolen from it as part of a hacking spree earlier this year. AT&T reportedly negotiated through an intermediary, called Reddington, acting on behalf of a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group. Before AT&T announced the breach, it was reported that Ticketmaster and Santander Bank were also compromised, via the stolen login credentials of an employee of third-party cloud storage company Snowflake.
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