If you are or were an AT&T user, chances are high that you were a victim of at least one of two major data breaches.
The first breach likely happened sometime between 2019 and 2021 when hackers obtained the social security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, AT&T account numbers, and passcodes of a whopping 73 million users . Both current and former users were affected, and the hackers seemed to have accessed data from 2019 or earlier. AT&T confirmed the breach in March 2024 when the data was posted on the dark web, although some outlets had reported on it as early as 2021 .
Shortly after, disaster hit again. The company announced in July 2024 that phone records belonging to “nearly all” of its customers were illegally downloaded from the AT&T workspace onto

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