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AT&T won’t say how its customers’ data spilled online


Customers say their leaked AT&T customer data — names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers — is accurate.

Three years after a hacker first teased an alleged massive theft of AT&T customer data, a breach seller this week dumped the full dataset online. The hacker, who first claimed in August 2021 to have stolen millions of AT&T customers’ data, only published a small sample of the leaked records at the time, making it difficult to verify its authenticity. Troy Hunt, a security researcher and owner of data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned, recently obtained a copy of the full leaked dataset.

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