- AT&T is investigating new statements of data violation
- The data were published in a violation forum and include SSNS training texts
- It could be new, or it could be a relaunch of older data
AT&T is investigating a data leak in a cyber crimes forum, but with some skepticism, since some have suggested that it can be a relaunch of an earlier data violation.
The data treasure includes 88 million customer records, but 86 million of these are unique, including personal information such as birth dates, telephone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses.
What makes this violation potentially dangerous is that the data is highly organized and includes 44 million text security numbers without format that could be used to commit fraud and identity theft.
Just a relaunch or something more sinister?
The Hackead research team first saw the files on May 15, with the same collection of data that appeared again on June 3 and extended to several other leaks and leaks forums since then.
There is a certain debate about the origin of the data, with hackead finding similarities between the encrypted and trained text values of the collection that could link it to the violation of April 2024 that used the vulnerability of the snowflake.
On the other hand, it could be a relaunch of prior violation, or a combination of one of the many AT&T violations.
For example, in 2024 AT&T confirmed that the data of 51 million customers had been stolen after previously denying that the data were stolen from AT&T Systems.
The data were initially stolen in 2021. The famous 2024 snowflake vulnerability debacle also saw the data of the stolen customers of AT&T, and the company then negotiated and paid $ 300,000 in Bitcoin to one of the computer pirates to eliminate the data.
The conclusion is that the data includes almost everything that a cyberdelino would need to commit fraud or steal an identity, which makes the protection of identity theft and credit monitoring a good option for those potentially affected by the violation.
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