AT&T Denies Claim of Leaked Data on Hacker Forum
August 19 2021 - 11:30PM
Dow Jones News
By Drew FitzGerald
AT&T Inc. denied a claim by a hacker group claiming to sell
data from more than 70 million of its customers, suggesting that
the purported leak wasn't credible.
"Based on our investigation today, information that appeared in
an internet chat room does not appear to have come from our
systems," the cellphone carrier said in an emailed statement
Thursday.
The denial comes after an attacker illegally accessed data of
more than 40 million past, current and prospective users of
AT&T rival T-Mobile US Inc., a breach that the company is still
probing.
The hacked T-Mobile databases included names, birth dates and
social-security numbers, among other records. Some stolen T-Mobile
user information was offered for sale through an online forum
earlier this week.
A different forum post on Thursday offered to sell AT&T
records for up to $1 million, posting samples of personal
information as proof. The carrier's denial suggests those entries
were inauthentic or were gathered from other sources.
Write to Drew FitzGerald at andrew.fitzgerald@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 19, 2021 23:23 ET (03:23 GMT)
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