US phone maker, AT&T announces data breach in hacker’s attack

One of America’s biggest phone operators, AT&T has revealed that hackers compromised data including texts and calls of a vast majority of its customers during an attack.

The compromised data comprises AT&T’s disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): call and text message records for nearly all its cellular customers, call and text message records for customers of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that utilize the network.

Call and text message records for AT&T landline customers who interacted with the aforementioned cellular numbers between May 1, 2022, and October 31, 2022, were also compromised.