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AT&T delays Microsoft 365 email delivery due to spam wave

AT&T's email servers are blocking connections from Microsoft 365 due to a "high volume" spam wave originating from Microsoft's service.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 09, 2024
- 01:58 PM
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FCC fines carriers $200 million for illegally sharing user location

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers almost $200 million for sharing their customers' real-time location data without their consent.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 29, 2024
- 03:41 PM
- 2
Former AT&T customers get $6.3 million in data throttling refunds

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is sending out $6,300,000 in partial refunds to 267,000 former AT&T Wireless customers as part of a data throttling settlement in 2019.
- Bill Toulas
- April 12, 2024
- 11:56 AM
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AT&T now says data breach impacted 51 million customers

AT&T is notifying 51 million former and current customers, warning them of a data breach that exposed their personal information on a hacking forum. However, the company has still not disclosed how the data was obtained.
- Bill Toulas
- April 10, 2024
- 10:18 AM
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AT&T faces lawsuits over data breach affecting 73 million customers

AT&T is facing multiple class-action lawsuits following the company's admission to a massive data breach that exposed the sensitive data of 73 million current and former customers.
- Bill Toulas
- April 03, 2024
- 12:28 PM
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AT&T confirms data for 73 million customers leaked on hacker forum

AT&T has finally confirmed it is impacted by a data breach affecting 73 million current and former customers after initially denying the leaked data originated from them.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 30, 2024
- 12:52 PM
- 2
AT&T says leaked data of 70 million people is not from its systems

AT&T says a massive trove of data impacting 71 million people did not originate from its systems after a hacker leaked it on a cybercrime forum and claimed it was stolen in a 2021 breach of the company.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 17, 2024
- 07:24 PM
- 2
AT&T alerts 9 million customers of data breach after vendor hack

AT&T is notifying roughly 9 million customers that some of their information has been exposed after one of its marketing vendors was hacked in January.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 09, 2023
- 12:24 PM
- 0
EwDoor botnet targets AT&T network edge devices at US firms

A recently discovered botnet is attacking unpatched AT&T enterprise network edge devices using exploits for a four-year-old critical severity Blind Command Injection security flaw.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 30, 2021
- 12:26 PM
- 0
FTC: ISPs collect and monetize far more user data than you’d think

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that six largest internet service providers (ISPs) in the U.S. collect and share customers' personal data without providing them with info on how it's used or meaningful ways to control this process.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 23, 2021
- 10:00 AM
- 2
AT&T lost $200M in seven years to illegal phone unlocking scheme

A Pakistani fraudster was sentenced earlier this week to 12 years in prison after AT&T, the world's largest telecommunications company, lost over $200 million after he and his co-conspirators coordinated a seven year scheme that led to the fraudulent unlocking of almost 2 million phones.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 19, 2021
- 10:00 AM
- 2
AT&T denies data breach after hacker auctions 70 million user database

AT&T says that they did not suffer a data breach after a well-known threat actor claimed to be selling a database containing the personal information of 70 million customers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 20, 2021
- 09:43 AM
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AT&T Launches Public Bug Bounty Program on HackerOne

Today AT&T is announcing their launch of a new public bug bounty programs on the HackerOne platform. This program will allow security researchers to report security bugs to AT&T in order receive a monetary reward.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 06, 2019
- 09:45 AM
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