AT&T has launched an investigation into the origin of a data breach on the Darkweb that includes personal information of 73 million current and former customers.
In a press release published Saturday morning, the telecommunications giant said the data was “published on the dark web approximately two weeks ago” and contains information such as Social Security numbers of account holders.
“It is not yet known whether the data…originated from AT&T or one of its providers,” the company added. “AT&T currently has no evidence of unauthorized access to its systems that resulted in the exfiltration of the data set.”
According to AT&T, The leak does not appear to contain financial information nor specific details about call history. The company said the breach shows that approximately 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders were affected.
AT&T said that is communicating with customers and asking them to reset their account passwords.
The investigation is being conducted by internal and external cybersecurity experts to determine how the data of approximately 7.6 million customers and approximately 65.4 million former account holders was stolen.
The preliminary analysis that the company has done indicates that These data are from 2019 or beforeadds the statement.
“AT&T has no evidence of unauthorized access to its systems that resulted in data breaches,” the company said.
The company also indicated that it is communicating with those affected and urged them to visit http://www.att.com/accountsafety for more information.
Last February, AT&T apologized to thousands of users affected by a service interruption caused by technical problems that affected thousands of people in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York, and that occurred due to a technical problem while the company was trying to expand its network. .
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