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Snowflake hackers identified and charged with stealing 50 billion AT&T records


The U.S. Department of justice indicted two hackers for breaking into the systems of AT&T and several other companies.

The U.S. government has accused Connor Moucka and John Binns of being the hackers who broke into the systems of AT&T, stealing around 50 billion customer call and text records. Until the Department of Justice’s indictment against the two hackers, which was filed on Sunday, the total number of stolen AT&T customer records was unknown. In some cases, the hackers also asked victims for a ransom by threatening them with leaking the stolen information, threats that they followed up on at times.

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