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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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[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

This is actually a horrible implementation though, because they just tie your new number to your old number. They don’t invalidate your old number at all. So now you have two SSNs that can be used to steal your identity.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I don't know if that is actually the case or not, but regardless, yeah, it's overall a pretty bad system.

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