AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online.The telecommunications giant said Saturday that a dataset found on the 'dark web' contains information such as Social Security numbers for about 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account holders.
The compromised data is from 2019 or earlier and does not appear to include financial information or call history, it said. In addition to passcodes and Social Security numbers, it may include email and mailing addresses, phone numbers and birth dates.It is not the first crisis this year for the Dallas-based company. New York prosecutors said they are opening an investigation into a wireless network outage in February that left thousands of AT&T customers across the U.S.
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