AT&T Reports Major Data Breach

(WPXI) – AT&T on Saturday revealed that personal data from 73 million current and former account holders had been compromised and “released on the dark web.  In a statement, the Dallas-based company said that it reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers. The telecommunications giant also said the codes of 65.4 million former account holders were also affected, The Dallas Morning News reported.  The company added that “information varied by customer and account,” but that it may have included a person’s full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode, according to The New York Times.  “Our internal teams are working with external cybersecurity experts to analyze the situation,” AT&T said in its statement. “To the best of our knowledge, the compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and does not contain personal financial information or call history.  AT&T said that the data was released onto the dark web about two weeks ago, the Morning News reported.  It is not known if the data “originated from AT&T or one of its vendors,” WFAA-TV reported.  AT&T officials said they would be “reaching out to individuals with compromised sensitive personal information separately and offering complimentary identity theft and credit monitoring services,” according to the Times.