The information of 73 million American mobile phone subscribers was obtained from the dark web

At&T said in a statement that the information, which was leaked about two weeks ago, includes personal information such as insurance numbers and appears to be from 2019 and earlier. be from it The source of this data is still under investigation and it is not known whether it was from the company or another vendor.

AT&T announced that there is still no evidence of unauthorized access to the company’s systems, and the leakage of this data did not affect the company’s activities. The company changed the passwords of millions of its subscribers after learning of the data leak of its customers.

The AT&T statement said: The company is actively contacting the individuals whose information was disclosed and, if necessary, will provide the possibility of checking the credit of customers at its own expense.

According to Bloomberg, AT&T is the third largest mobile operator in the US after Verizon and T-Mobile. The company suffered a massive service outage in February that took hours to resolve and prompted an investigation by the federal government.

Source: ISNA