Key Takeaways
- AT&T said nearly all its cellular customers had call and text records compromised in an April data breach.
- The breach does not include users' names, but that information could be determined by publicly available tools linking names to phone numbers.
- AT&T believes the leaked data is not currently publicly available.
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In February, a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:widespread AT&T outage affected thousands of cell phone customers. The company said the outage was likely caused by the "the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber 🅘attack."
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