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Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2025

A US soldier was arrested for leaking presidential call logs

US authorities have arrested soldier Cameron John Wagenius for his alleged involvement in leaking presidential phone records. US authorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius (20), a US Army soldier, suspected of involvement in leaking presidential call logs. The soldier was arrested in Fort Hood, Texas, he is suspected to be the hacker who using the moniker […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2024

AT&T paid a $370,000 ransom to prevent stolen data from being leaked

Wired attributes the recently disclosed AT&T data breach to a hacker living in Turkey and reported the company paid a $370,000 ransom. An American hacker who lives in Turkey claimed responsibility for the recently disclosed AT&T data breach. The man also said the company paid a ransom to ensure that stolen data would be deleted, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2024

New AT&T data breach exposed call logs of almost all customers

AT&T disclosed a new data breach that exposed phone call and text message records for approximately 110 million people. AT&T suffered a massive data breach, attackers stole the call logs for approximately 110 million customers, which are almost all of the company’s mobile customers. The stolen data was stolen on a database hosted by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2024

AT&T states that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers

AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported. The researchers confirmed that the leaked data is legitimate, however, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2023

Crooks broke into AT&T email accounts to empty their cryptocurrency wallets

Threat actors are gaining access to AT&T email accounts in an attempt to hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts. Hackers are breaking into the AT&T email accounts and then using the access they are logging into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts to drain their crypto funds, TechCrunch reported. Crooks are targeting people who have att.net, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2023

AT&T is notifying millions of customers of data breach after a third-party vendor hack

AT&T is warning some of its customers that some of their information was exposed after the hack of a third-party vendor’s system. AT&T is notifying millions of customers that some of their information was exposed after a third-party vendor was hacked. CPNI is information related to the telecommunications services purchased by the customers, including the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2021

Pakistani man sentenced to 12 years of prison for his role in AT&T hacking scheme

A Pakistani national has been sentenced to 12 years of prison in the US for his role in a hacking scheme against the telecom giant AT&T. The Pakistani national Muhammad Fahd (35) was sentenced to 12 years of prison in the United States for his primary role in a seven-year scheme to illegally unlock nearly […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2021

ShinyHunters group claims to have data of 70M AT&T customers

Threat actors claim to have a database containing private information on roughly 70 million AT&T customers, but the company denies any security breach. ShinyHunters group claims to have a database containing private information on roughly 70 million AT&T customers, but the company denies that they have been stolen from its systems. ShinyHunters is a popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2017

Experts disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit

Security researchers at Trend Micro have publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day flaw in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit after manufactured failed to patch it Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit after the manufacturer failed to patch this flaw over the past few months. […]

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A US soldier was arrested for leaking presidential call logs

AT&T paid a $370,000 ransom to prevent stolen data from being leaked

New AT&T data breach exposed call logs of almost all customers

AT&T states that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

Crooks broke into AT&T email accounts to empty their cryptocurrency wallets

AT&T is notifying millions of customers of data breach after a third-party vendor hack

Pakistani man sentenced to 12 years of prison for his role in AT&T hacking scheme

ShinyHunters group claims to have data of 70M AT&T customers

Experts disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit

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