Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach
The call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of millions of AT&T cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers were exposed in a massive data breach, the American carrier revealed Friday.
Matt Egan and Sean Lyngaas for CNN:
AT&T said the compromised data includes the telephone numbers of “nearly all” of its cellular customers and the customers of wireless providers that use its network between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022.
The stolen logs also contain a record of every number AT&T customers called or texted – including customers of other wireless networks – the number of times they interacted, and the call duration.
Importantly, AT&T said the stolen data did not include the contents of calls and text messages nor the time of those communications.
We have an ongoing investigation into the AT&T breach and we’ re coordinating with our law enforcement partners.
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The company blamed an “illegal download” on a third-party cloud platform that it learned about in April – just as the company was grappling with an unrelated major data leak.
AT&T says that the exposed data is not believed to be publicly available, however CNN was unable to independently verify that assertion.
AT&T spokesperson Alex Byers told CNN that this was an entirely new incident that had “no connection in any way” to another incident disclosed in March. At that time, AT&T said personal information such as Social Security numbers on 73 million current and former customers was released onto the dark web.
AT&T said international calls were not included in the stolen data, with the exception of calls to Canada.
The breach also included AT&T landline customers who interacted with those cell numbers.
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