Information of about 7.3 million customers of telecommunications company AT&T has been leaked. The company has recently announced that it has started an investigation into the incident. News CNN.
In a report published this week, the telecommunication company said that two weeks ago, the information of new and old customers was leaked on the dark web. This includes account holders’ social security numbers. According to the company, it is not known whether these data were stolen from AT&T or from somewhere else. However, AT&T has so far not found any unauthorized access to its systems, through which data was stolen.
According to the information received, data was stolen from 2019 and earlier. It does not contain any financial information or call history, AT&T said. According to the company, the total stolen data includes 7.6 million new and 65.4 million old users.
Customers are informed by the company to change the passcode of the account. AT&T also advises being cautious about any changes to credit reports or accounts.
