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Were your call records stolen? AT&T and Verizon probably won’t tell you.

Telcos reportedly aren’t telling users about call metadata taken in Chinese hack.

AT&T and Verizon reportedly are not notifying most customers whose call records were stolen in the ongoing attack attributed to Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon. US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) this week criticized the carriers for having weak security and the FCC for "let[ting] phone companies write their own cybersecurity rules." In a different incident involving similar metadata, AT&T disclosed in July that a breach on third-party cloud platform Snowflake exposed the call and text records of nearly all of its cellular customers.

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