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AT&T Says Data From 109 Million U.S. Customer Accounts Illegally Downloaded

AT&T, opens new tab said on Friday the company suffered a massive hacking incident as data from about 109 million customer accounts containing records of calls and texts from 2022 was illegally downloaded in April.

The U.S. telecom company said the FBI is investigating and at least one person has been arrested after AT&T call logs were copied from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform, in a significant breach of consumer communication records.

AT&T’s breach is the latest big hack to hit a wide swath of Americans, coming on the heels of a ransomware attack on UnitedHealth Group’s (UNH.N), opens new tab Change Healthcare unit in February that hit an estimated one-third of the country whose private data may have been exposed.

Read the rest of the story at Reuters.

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