This is bad. Really bad.
If you’re an AT&T customer, you have a brand new reason to hate your cellular provider. In a turn of events that is somehow both entirely predictable and totally pathetic, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. has announced that hackers recently stole call and text records belonging to “nearly all” of its customers.
Between April 14 and April 25, 2024, the hacker exfiltrated files “containing AT&T records of customer call and text interactions that occurred between approximately May 1 and October 31, 2022, as well as on January 2, 2023,” AT&T says. Thankfully, the records that were stolen did not have identifying data points. According to the company, “personal information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or other personally identifiable information” were not stolen.
In other words, the hackers seem to have stolen wholly anonymized data. However, such data need not necessarily stay anonymous for long. This is something that AT&T readily admits to in its disclosure: “While the data does not include customer names, there are often ways, using publicly available online tools, to find the name associated with a specific telephone number,” the company sheepishly admits.
“AT&T is working with law enforcement in its efforts to arrest those involved in the incident. Based on information available to AT&T, it understands that at least one person has been apprehended,” the company discloses in its filing.
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