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by smcin 2y ago
- [EDIT: I confused the details of this AT&T breach with the other (2019) one disclosed on 3/2024: 77m AT&T/MVNO customers, 90% of them former customers]. This one is 110m customers, presumably all their current customerba
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by smcin 2y ago
Joining the dots on the facts so far, people don't seem to have grasped the apparent huge significance: - guessing it was some GenAI startup looking into consumer tracking, alternate credit scoring, surveillance or other national-secur
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by smcin 2y ago
It's not "internal analytics", because a) 90% of the data was former customers and b) it has location data but timestamps were removed, so it's social-graph information plus location. Start asking yourself what sorts of
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by smcin 2y ago
The DOJ approved two 1-month "delay periods", first in May, then in June, as part of the criminal investigation. We found that out earlier this morning, see earlier discussion.
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by smcin 2y ago
Some new news in the article and comment: - [security expert] "This [logs without timestamps] isn’t one of their main databases; it is metadata on who is contacting who. Its only real use is to know who is contacting whom and how many
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by smcin 2y ago
Subsequent reporting reveals that the DOJ ordered two ~month-long "delay periods" in disclosure: > The Justice Department determined on May 9 and again on June 5 that a delay in providing public disclosure was warranted, so th
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by smcin 2y ago
They are very much related to the news, that's precisely why I linked to the stock charts: AT&T was flat overnight but opened (9am ET) with a -2.6% spike down, but has been recovering since. Their press release appears to have been
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by smcin 2y ago
AT&T stock has already bounced back from much of the initial -2.6% drop this morning, so the market thinks AT&T is immune. Meanwhile Snowflake is -3.9% down (they have many other customers than AT&T). https://www.mark
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by smcin 2y ago
Snowflake is saying they knew of unusual activity "around mid-April 2024", confirmed "May 23, 2024", around which time they made MFA mandatory (although their customer AT&T say they knew of the breach "Mar 20&qu
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by smcin 2y ago
Among other things. The data's mostly from May-Oct 2022.
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by smcin 2y ago
I'm more stunned that AT&T knew back on Apr 19 [UPDATE: Mar 20] yet feels it had neither an SOX violation or SEC obligation (share price effect) to notify timely. Like, by Apr 22. Not three months later [UPDATE: 4 months later]. Re
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by smcin 2y ago
The reports said celltower-level location data associated with calls and texts (but not datestamps). That would allow inferring their homes, job location, commute, family members, social graph.
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by smcin 2y ago
Of course it's not meaningfully actionable to customers, big time lag in not disclosing since Apr 19. (Why does this not fall under SOX violation with the obligation to report timely to affected parties? It has affected AT&T's
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by smcin 2y ago
Ongoing fallout from the Snowflake compromise; AT&T knew on Apr 19 but only disclosed now (Why does this not fall under SOX violation with the obligation to report timely to affected parties? It has affected AT&T's stock price
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by smcin 2y ago
This is huge; also AT&T knew on Apr 19 but only disclosed now; ongoing fallout from the Snowflake compromise: - Records downloaded from Snowflake cloud platform - "AT&T will notify 110 million AT&T customers" - Comprom
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by smcin 2y ago
'Syriana' was superb. Didn't explicitly depict a WH or US President, but it did feature Congressional hearings.
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by smcin 2y ago
NYC Canal Street was similar to Akihabara 45+ years ago, for electronics? When did that change? 80s financial boom?
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by smcin 2y ago
Dr Strangelove?
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In the 1960s, a computer was not something you kept in your pocket that you could pull out and interact with 24 hours a day. Nor could it handle face scans, precise geolocation data, intersect that with other longitudinal datasets about you
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by smcin 2y ago
> "According to the spokesperson, Target accepts several forms of payment, including Target Circle Cards, cash, digital wallets, SNAP/EBT, credit and debit cards, and buy now-pay later services."
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by smcin 2y ago
Without you giving any context, was this "Insane HOA President Loses His Mind, Snaps Kid’s Fishing Rod For Fishing In Neighborhood Pond"? If it was, do they dispute the accuracy or context of that? (if they do, they could put up a
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by smcin 2y ago
'HOA' = Homeowners Association: in the US, an organization in a subdivision, planned community, or condominium building that makes and enforces rules for the properties and residents.
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by smcin 2y ago
Drink a shot if you've heard this before: > The EBA [European Banking Authority] is concerned that off-balance sheet exposures could become a problem for banks if large non banks need to access credit lines simultaneously.
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by smcin 2y ago
Previous related: - 4/2024 "Flawed Valuations Threaten $1.7T Private Credit Boom" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39539125 - 5/2024 "Financiers fret over 'leverage on leverage' in pri
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Private Credit Funds with No Skin in Game a Worry(bloomberg.com)
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Archive: https://archive.ph/j77EI
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by smcin 2y ago
The headline is speculative (original article: "Training AI music models is about to get very expensive"), nothing is "finally" happening, it's merely two more new lawsuits on top of other existing ones; the article
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Existing threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40858750
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by smcin 2y ago
> Last week three major record labels — Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group—announced they were suing the AI music companies Suno (in MA) and Udio (in NY) over alleged copyright infringement. Another noteworthy re
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by smcin 2y ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859599

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