After originally denying that the leaked data originated from them, AT&T has finally acknowledged that it is affected by a data breach that affects 73 million current and former customers.
This follows AT&T’s repeated denials over the previous two weeks that their systems were compromised or that a vast amount of compromised consumer data originated from them.
Although the business maintains that there is no proof that its systems were compromised, it has now acknowledged that the exposed information pertains to 73 million of its previous and present clients.
According to AT&T, in a statement provided with BleepingComputer, “Based on our preliminary analysis, the data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders read more AT&T confirms data for 73 million customers leaked on hacker forum.
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