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Hackers Leak 86 Million AT&T Records with Decrypted SSNs
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Here’s the troubling part: the threat actor claims that both date of birth and Social Security numbers (SSNs) were originally encrypted but have since been fully decrypted and are now included in the leaked data as plain text. The breach lasted from May 2022 to October 2022 and included some records from January 2023, exposed phone numbers, interaction counts, and call durations, though not the content of communications or personally identifiable information. “ The original breach of sensitive records from AT&T was enough to worry their customers, now it poses a significant risk to their identities, “ said Thomas Richards, Infrastructure Security Practice Director at Black Duck.
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