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AT&T’s Dark Web Data Leak

April 1, 2024
An AT&T data breach affected millions of current and former users, leaking their data to the dark web. Student loan hackers, WYA?
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AT&T has launched a “robust” investigation into a data leak that affected 73 million current and former customers. The company said the breach occurred two weeks ago, compromising personal information including...
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Personal information of 73 million current and former AT&T customers has been
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leaked online. This includes addresses,
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social security numbers and even passcodes while AT&T hasn't found evidence of
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stuff they're investigating with cyber experts.
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You know what that means?
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The data from 2019 or earlier involves 7.6 million current and 65.4
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million former customers. So that's every practically everybody in the last
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decade who knows the last few years.
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But financial details weren't leaked.
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AT&T advises customers to monitor their accounts and credit reports.
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So what do we do?
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I mean, I definitely have to change my password like you
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hack you hack my info and you have my birthday is over
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and are you the type of person to use the same password
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for everything? So I can't forget,
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like I'm not ever gonna forget my birthday,
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but I can't have it out there in the dark web either
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Yeah, that's true.
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And lucky for me,
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I have like, I always monitor my credit reports.
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So I'm like on top of that shit.
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But it's crazy last time this happened like AT&T offered $5
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it's when, when all the service went out.
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Not this particular incident but how much is your middle name worth
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Jenny? Well, everyone knows my name.
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Oh, I mean,
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Brianna is my middle name and it's like,
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yo, out of everything they could hack,
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like yo hack hack,
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my student loans, like,
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yo hack that shit hackers.
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Like why y'all wasting time on AT&T like where's the Robin Hood
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hacker at? Like,
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I just wanna wake up Jenny to like 10-K for no reason
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would be nice. But anyhoo,
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let's move on.