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Quick Facts On the AT&T Breach

For those of you who haven't seen yet, AT&T recently informed customers of a breach.

Some quick facts about the AT&T breach:

  • Impacted over 70 million customers.
  • Revealed the call and text meta information. I'll add to this point because I've seen some misinformation showing that content (ie: messages) were compromised. This is not correct.
  • The meta information involved not just AT&T numbers, but also numbers associated with those AT&T numbers (ie: contacts who conversed through phone calls/texts).
  • The compromise period was during a few months in 2022.
  • Unfortunately, there was a delay in releasing that there was a breach.

Unfortunately, there's quite a few ways that hackers can use this information. One big cost to this is that it expands hacker's linkability with your information. If you're wondering how hackers can use linkability, I wrote a post for OSINT called Why everyone is panicking over linkability.

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