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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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[-] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 6 months ago

It would be better to treat SSN as a username, because that's exactly what it is. It shouldn't be used as a secret for security purposes.

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