US telecom giant AT&T disclosed on Friday a data breach that exposed phone records of “nearly all” of its customers.
The breach, affecting an estimated 110 million people, comes just months after another AT&T security incident involving personal information, and was disclosed in a filing with regulators last week. “We learned that AT&T customer data was illegally downloaded from our workspace on a third-party cloud platform,” the company said. “We have confirmed the access point has been secured.”
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Source: Computing
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