Re: AT&T data breach - phone/text call records

On 12/07/2024 14:29, Alan Browne wrote:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/12/att-wireless-hacker-data-breach/
 AT&T says hacker stole data on ‘nearly all’ of its wireless customers

And what regulatory repurcussions will there be? None, I bet.
It'll get a little dip in the share price and that's it. Whereas people will have their personal data privacy eroded and trust in corps even more.

 A hacker accessed and downloaded call and text-message data from nearly all AT&T Wireless customers, the company disclosed in a securities filing Friday.
 The breach covers calls and texts made from May 1 to Oct. 31, 2022, as well as this past January. The stolen data include numbers customers called or texted and their duration, but doesn’t contain the content of those communications, AT&T said. The company said it doesn’t think the records are available online.
 AT&T has nearly 90 million wireless subscribers, and the hack also affects information from reseller brands that use the AT&T network.

A five buck fine for every individual affected would apply focus in their cybersecurity.