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AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
Security researcher told TechCrunch that leaked AT&T customer data contained encrypted account passcodes that can be easily unscrambled.
A security researcher who analyzed the leaked data told TechCrunch that the encrypted account passcodes are easy to decipher. In 2021, the hacker claiming the AT&T breach posted only a small sample of records, making it difficult to check if the data was authentic. The security researcher told TechCrunch that each record in the leaked data also contains the AT&T customer’s account passcode in an encrypted format.
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