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AT&T Says Personal Information from 73M Customers Leaked on the Dark Web
- advisedwang 3y agoIs there an easy way to check if you're in the data set?
- jcoletti 3y agoThis is a great site for checking current and monitoring future breaches: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ https://haveibeenpwned.com/
- sp332 3y agoIt doesn't have this one, at least not yet. It has a different unconfirmed AT&T breach from 2021. https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-alleged-att-data-breach/ https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-alleged-att-data...
- NelsonMinar 3y agoThis breach is quite old (2019), the news here is AT&T finally put out a press release today a week after the big story about the data finally showing up in public. Note AT&T still has no idea how their customers' data got out. At least they're admitting now the data is really theirs. Still not taking any responsibility for how it escaped or why it's been five years and they still don't know what went wrong.
- graemep 3y agoMaybe they are better off not knowing - if they found out there would be a fair chance it was their fault. Any consequences for them for the breach, or is it the customers' problem?
- NelsonMinar 3y agoTheir press release ends with “As of today, this incident has not had a material impact on AT&T’s operations”. I assume that's some dumb legal requirement related to being a publicly traded company. But it sure looks like a statement of the legal problem right now with privacy breaches in the US.
- 1shooner 3y agoHere's perhaps a naive question: How does AT&T have customer social security numbers? Would this be something they received directly from customers, or data they've acquired elsewhere and associated with their customer accounts? I may be forgetting it, but I don't recall giving my SSN to any cell provider.
- mh- 3y agoI've definitely always had to provide it when setting up an account. I assume for credit purposes.
- anonym29 3y agoFun fact: if you tell AT&T you're an American citizen who is uncomfortable giving them your SSN, they will simply refuse to do business with you, but if you tell them you're an illegal immigrant who doesn't have an SSN, go into the store to show photo ID, and pay a $200 security deposit, they'll gladly sign you up with no SSN.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoFun fact: if you repeat nonsense in multiple threads, people will stop listening to you. It’s kinda like a messaging broker ignoring malicious clients spewing garbage, in case you only understand programming analogies.
- celdon25 3y agoThen offer a rebuttal instead of threats of censorship. This isn’t Reddit.
- Retric 3y agoIt’s just BS, they offer prepaid service without any credit checks. Thus the upfront payment. https://www.att.com/prepaid/plans/ https://www.att.com/prepaid/plans/ IMO that 300$ upfront for a year plan is really compelling if you’re not constantly watching videos on your phone.
- yieldcrv 3y agowhere on the darkweb? we don't talk about clearnet like this, we say specific forums and websites even for leaks. which is the exact same form that the darkweb exists as
- colecut 3y agoWhen I see a story about a teacher being fired for being on onlyfans, I've never seen them include a link to their onlyfans =)
- yieldcrv 3y agoI would chuckle and move on, but in this example I typically do go look and it turns out its usually just an ad campaign. As in, the firing did happen, but so did the hiring of a publicist and resharing on her social media and forums as the top of the funnel to join her OnlyFans. With the darkweb I don't know where that discussion would be. which marketplace. and it is so cumbersome to go look. (edit: and as the sister comment pointed out, OnlyFans is a "where", a specific website.)
- ribosometronome 3y agoTo op's point, they do specify a website and not just 'internet'. I don't think they're necessarily saying they should include the onion link. You used to specifically hear about the Silk Road, for example.
- colecut 3y agoYes, and Silk Road was a darknet site. Silk Road was pretty well known in mainstream culture, was a featured story in Wired, etc.. maybe that's what made it worth mentioning. If this info is posted on some mostly unknown darknet site, maybe they just don't want to make it more popular.
- yieldcrv 3y agoTo be fairer mainstream only ever mentioned Silk Road for the past 12 years consecutively and I only occasionally see another market when the Department of Justice does a press release, despite Silk Road being gone for a decade all the same All markets were immediately bigger than Silk Road and continued growing far beyond what silk road ever was, bigger by every metric such as number of listings, breadth of types of products, volume, more advanced, more resilient to government fund and server seizure attempts… We dont actually know if it was a “unknown darknet site” or one of the major ones, or simply a link posted on a Dread subreddit
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- RadixDLT 3y agothis is how data brokers and people sites get your private info if you are not already in their database
- theGnuMe 3y agoIt’s even worse. I haven’t had att since 2011 and my data was in there. So they never delete former customer data. We need a federal law against this.
- sas224dbm 3y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20240330173821/https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/03/30/att-says-personal-information-from-73-million-customers-leaked-on-the-dark-web-including-social-security-numbers/?sh=67c0f288641c https://web.archive.org/web/20240330173821/https://www.forbe...
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876565
- sharts 3y agoWhy do these companies retain personal data when people are no longer customers? Like, the majority of the breach are people that ended their business relationship with these companies and yet they are the ones that suffer.