TapTechNews July 13th, according to a report by Bloomberg early this morning Beijing time, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it is investigating the large-scale hacking incident of AT&T customer data, and coordinating with our law enforcement partners.
The federal law enforcement agency also said that due to the fact that this incident may endanger national security or public safety, the announcement time of the data leak will be postponed. AT&T also provided a statement to Bloomberg: In order to cooperate with the law enforcement agency's ongoing investigation of the hacking incident, the announcement time will be postponed to avoid disrupting the law enforcement work. The company said that they believe at least one person related to this incident has been arrested.
On the 12th local time, AT&T announced that hackers had invaded a third-party cloud platform and obtained a large amount of customer data, including the phone numbers of cellular network and landline customers, as well as the call and text message records for a six-month period from May 1st, 2022 to October 31st, 2022.
The customer data of AT&T company was stolen by a large-scale hacking attack, including almost all mobile phone users' call and text message records during the period from May 1st, 2022 to October 31st. There are also a very small number of records of customers since January 2nd, 2023 that have been leaked.
This batch of data may become a potential landmine for privacy and national security issues, affecting intelligence officers, police officers, those being tracked, journalists, therapists, etc., and may trigger a series of disturbing problems. AT&T has nearly 115 million customers.
The company became aware of the data leak on April 19th and confirmed that this incident has nothing to do with an earlier security incident that occurred in March.