NEW YORK (AP) — The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend. In a Saturday announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and … Read more
Around 73 million current and former AT&T account holders have been impacted following this month’s data set leak to the dark web. AT&T said it is investigating the data set leak which impacted about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders, according to the telecom company. The preliminary analysis showed the … Read more
About 30 years ago, American Telephone and Telegraph ended its telegraph services. Now AT&T is taking aim at “plain old telephone service.” The Dallas-based telecom giant has applied to the California Public Utilities Commission to be released as the state’s “carrier of last resort,” a designation the company has held since 1996 requiring it to … Read more
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that she was launching an investigation into the nationwide AT&T service outage that affected about three-quarters of its customers. In a press release Thursday, James said her office will investigate the causes of and the company’s response to the outage and urged New Yorkers who were … Read more
DALLAS, Feb. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T* (NYSE:T) CEO, John Stankey, sent a letter to employees on the resolved network outage that occurred on February 22. In this letter, the Company reiterated its financial guidance provided with its earnings report in January 2024. For the convenience of all interested parties, we are including a link to the … Read more
AT&T said Thursday evening that a nationwide outage earlier in the day was not caused by a cyberattack, based on an initial review. “Based on our initial review, we believe the outage was caused by the application & execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack,” the … Read more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI are investigating widespread outages in AT&T’s wireless network that affected customers across the country Thursday morning. The FCC said it is aware of the reported outages and its Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is actively investigating the incident. “We are in touch … Read more
As thousands across the United States grapple with a sudden and widespread cellular outage, major telecom giants AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile face connectivity disruptions, leaving users without a signal. Emergency services, including 911, have been impacted, prompting concerns and responses from both telecom companies and authorities. Outage Surge and Affected Areas Reports of the cellular … Read more
AT&T said that cellular customers were experiencing outages this morning, but there were also reports of widespread disruptions at other carriers. “We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that is happening and some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning. We are working urgently to restore service to them. We encourage the use … Read more
Thousands of outages affecting AT&T’s wireless network were reported early Thursday morning, according to tracking site DownDetector. The outages appeared to start around 4 a.m. EST Thursday, with the number of reported outages surging to more than 70,000 as of 8 a.m., according to the tracking website. They were most concentrated in Houston, Atlanta, Miami and Chicago … Read more
