AT&T notifies users of data breach and reset of millions of passcodes

AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about recently discovered online theft of personal data.

The data set on the “dark web” contains information such as Social Security numbers for about 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million previous account holders, the telecom giant said Saturday.

The company said it has already reset passcodes for existing users and will contact account holders whose sensitive personal information was compromised.

The company said in a statement that it is not known whether the data “sourced from AT&T or one of its suppliers.” She added that the data that was hacked dates back to 2019 or earlier, and does not appear to include financial information or call history. In addition to passcodes and Social Security numbers, they may include email and postal addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth.

This is not the first crisis this year for the Dallas-based company.

New York prosecutors said they were Open an investigation In a wireless network outage in February that left Thousands of AT&T customers Across the United States without cell phone service for about 12 hours.

The outage, which also affected some Consumer Cellular, T-Mobile, UScellar and Verizon subscribers, led to widespread frustration among phone users and briefly disrupted 911 service in some communities.

AT&T apologized for the network outage and offered… $5 credit for customers.