Data Security, Cybersecurity, AT&T

AT&T Customer Data Resurfaces on Dark Web in Enhanced, Decrypted Format

HaystackID on 6/13/2025

According to an AT&T spokesperson, this is not accurate. Social Security Numbers and Dates of Birth were already available in plain text in the original compromised dataset from 2024 (in separate files that could be...more

FCC Enforcement Actions Pose New Risks for Vendors to Telecom Companies

Cooley LLP on 9/24/2024

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a $13 million settlement with AT&T that concluded an investigation into a third-party data breach that exposed AT&T customer data. This is the latest in a series...more

AT&T/Snowflake Breach Hits Most of US - Vendor Exposure Strikes Again

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 7/15/2024

AT&T Inc. announced in a July 12, 2024, SEC filing that hackers stole a cache of six months’ worth of mobile phone customer data, illegally downloading the records from a workspace account at the cloud-service provider...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 8/16/2018

Today’s Muskdate is all about the SEC issuing a subpoena to Tesla as it continues its investigation into Elon’s August 7 Twitter post about the “funding secured” detail of his plans to take the company private....more

Alphabet Soup and Data Security

Bilzin Sumberg on 10/19/2015

In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it was hacked, potentially putting 15 million...more

AT&T issues “What every CEO Needs to Know About Cybersecurity”

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/12/2015

We have reported before how CEOs, GCs and Boards are struggling with understanding and responding to cybersecurity risks within their organizations....more