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Missed! AT&T Customer Data Spread on Dark Web, Here's the Impact!

Missed! AT&T Customer Data Spread on Dark Web, Here's the Impact!  America's largest mobile operator AT&T experienced a data leak and was sold on the dark web. Photo: Reuters - America's largest telecommunications operator, AT&T, admits it missed out. Because, there is raw data on their customers that is released on the "dark web". In fact, they themselves did not find any data leaks.  This customer data was sold on the “dark web” about 2 weeks ago. The operator with 241 million customers said that the impact was already being felt by around 7.6 million account holders as well as 65.4 million former account holders.  This is based on the company's initial analysis of the incident.  According to AT&T, the data is from 2019 or earlier. From internal audits, they themselves have no evidence of unauthorized access to company systems as a result of the incident. This means that there are no attacks from cybercriminals that result