There is a danger to the AT&T phone records
AT&T has said that it found that the phone numbers of its current and former users have been exposed due to a data breach. It added that it’s notifying affected customers via text, email or US mail. The company has urged users to check their webpage and report any suspicious text activity to the AT&T team.
AT&T leaked the phone and text records of almost all wireless customers
AT&T has said that a security breach involving some of its data may have affected over 70 million US customers, who used its services between October 2016 and March 2017. It also said the data does not include any time stamps for the calls or texts. AT&T is notifying affected customers by text, email or US mail and has also set up a webpage.
AT&T has cellphone service for tens of thousands of people
US telecom carrier AT&T said that it is working “urgently” to restore service to some of its customers across the country after services went down for about two hours on Thursday. Reports of the outage increased from a few at around 3:30 am ET to more than 73,000 by around 8 am, according to Downdetector. However, the number of reports had dropped to less than 62,000 by 10:30 am.