Millions of current and former AT&T customers’ leaked data, including Social Security numbers, were posted on the dark web earlier this month. The leak prompted a “robust investigation supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts,” the telecommunications giant said Saturday. The compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and included the information of roughly 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former ones, AT&T said. The compromised data included information of roughly 73 m ...

AT&T reset passcodes after a massive customer data leak surfaced on the dark web.The leak impacted 7.6 million current and 65 million former account holders, the company said.The data included names, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read preview Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go ...

ToplinePersonal information—including Social Security numbers—from about 73 million AT&T customers was leaked on the dark web earlier this month, the company said Saturday, though the source of the data is still under investigation, as it’s not known whether the leak came from within the company or one of its vendors.The data leak includes customers’ Social Security numbers, among other information, the company ... [+] said.Getty Images Key FactsPreliminary analysis of the leak indicates the data set appear ...

AT&T announced Saturday that it is investigating a two-week-old data breach that published millions of customers' data on the dark web, a portion of the internet that can only be accessed using special software.The company has reset the passcodes of the 7.6 million current users who were impacted and said it is actively contacting those customers, along with the 65.4 million former account holders who also had their data compromised."As of today, this incident has not had a material impact on AT&T's operati ...

AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online US telco giant takes action after 2019 data spillPhone giant AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.The U.S. telco giant initiated the passcode mass-reset after TechCrunch informed AT&T on Monday that the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T custom ...

DALLAS, March 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* has determined that AT&T data-specific fields were contained in a data set released on the dark web approximately two weeks ago. While AT&T has made this determination, it is not yet known whether the data in those fields originated from AT&T or one of its vendors. With respect to the balance of the data set, which includes personal information such as social security numbers, the source of the data is still being assessed. AT&T has launched a robust investigatio ...

DALLAS, March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.2775 per share on the company's common shares, payable May 1, 2024. Key Takeaways: The board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.2775 per share on the company's common shares. Dividends on common stock as well as Series A and Series C preferred stock are payable on May 1, 2024. Dividends on Series B preferred stock are payable on May 2, 2024. The board of directors of AT&T* (NYSE:T) today d ...

Telecom giant AT&T (T 2.15%) has successfully kept its wireless business growing by attracting hundreds of thousands of new subscribers each quarter. The fiber internet business is also performing well as the company expands its network. On the consumer side of the business, revenue growth from fiber services is outpacing revenue losses from legacy wireline services.The part of AT&T that serves business is a different story. Business wireline revenue tumbled 7.3% in 2023, and operating income from that segm ...

I'd been a Verizon (VZ -0.42%) wireless customer for as long as I can remember. My long-standing relationship with the telecom giant was one of the many reasons I initially bought its stock.While I recently switched my service to rival AT&T (T -1.05%), I don't plan to swap stocks. I still think Verizon is a better dividend stock, which is why I recently added to my position again.A better income streamVerizon and AT&T offer attractive dividend yields these days. At first glance, they're pretty comparable. V ...

Three years after a hacker first teased an alleged massive theft of AT&T customer data, a breach seller this week dumped the full dataset online. It contains the personal information of some 73 million AT&T customers.A new analysis of the fully leaked dataset — containing names, home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth — points to the data being authentic. Some AT&T customers have confirmed their leaked customer data is accurate. But AT&T still hasn’t said how its customers ...