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AT&T confirms data for 73 million customers leaked on hacker forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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AT&T has finally confirmed it is impacted by a data breach affecting 73 million current and former customers after initially denying the leaked data originated from them.

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[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah that makes sense, I suppose. They would try to turn it into a profit-making opportunity. I don't know how accurate this is or if I'm even reading it correctly, but it seems insider stock sales picked up in the last three months so maybe you're right.