AT&T Phoned In Cybersecurity: Suffers Massive Data Breach

AT&T was blasted in the press for its “sloppy” cybersecurity, questioned by members of Congress, and hit with a class action lawsuit for its “sweeping” data breach when the company disclosed in 2024 that hackers accessed six months of call and text records from “nearly all” of its more than 70 million customers. AT&T admitted that there are ways to identify the names associated with specific telephone numbers and security experts are concerned that “any information could help hackers access more data.”