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AT&T suffers data breach affecting 109 million customers

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The data breach affected nearly all the company’s wireless customers, with the hackers exfiltrating records of customer call and text interactions.

US telecom giant AT&T has disclosed in a regulatory filing that hackers stole the call records for tens of millions of its customers. The company also said it paid a member of the hacking team more than $300,000 to delete the data, plus provide a video demonstrating proof

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