AT&T suffers data breach affecting 109 million customers

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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