Major AT&T data breach hits 73 million customers

Some data has been found on the dark web, containing personal information such as social security numbers.

US telecoms company AT&T has suffered a major data breach affecting 7.6 million existing account holders and 65.4 million past subscribers.

The data has been found on the dark web, where it was included in a set of data which contained AT&T data-specific fields.

Some of the

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