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Well, guess it is a wait and see if anything happens from this breach. We have AT&T as well. It also seems that non-AT&T numbers were revealed if the affected cell numbers had contacted people outside the network.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/12/business/att-customers-massive-breach/index.html
Most Viral edit: Thanks! Also, thanks for the accolade!
jumpbus360
And we still have no real CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS. Not ones with teeth. And we are all Consumers, more so than we are Citizens.
RowanUnderwood
And the AI trained on this data incoming?
kaijuuGold
we fucked yo and why the fuck is att saving all that info
CaptainCaptObvious
Again?
freemab
Good thing they keep laying people off. Soon they will be 5 executives, 12 contractors, and two LLMs.
xj4low
Don't forget that they help fund and get One America News (OAN) on the air.
ProChoiceBaby
Rogahar
I dunno about you guys, but "a data breach got hold of basically all of our users data" sounds an awful lot like "we sold all of our users data" to me.
GuardianGorilla
6 months worth of 2 year old texts and calls? They are looking for something I would say.
Gish99
The fact that this data exists in the first place shows that they definitely have alot more
AmaraDela
Man are the hackers gonna be disappointed to learn my private info hasn't changed since last time they stole it.
Luvlyquants
I wonder if these breaches are caused by outsourcing. They give your data to the cheapest bidder to manage & the cheapest bidder sells it.
Gish99
It is. This breach was due to a database company called Snowflake
Luvlyquants
From AT&T to its customers :)
TimbiquiDarkThirty
Yeeeeaaahbuuuoooyyyyy
Don’t drag comstar into this mess. Space AT&T is, concerning the aggressive application of data privacy, the competent opposite to that travesty of a communication giant
backrideup9
I should start texting myself butthole pics for when the next breach happens. Enjoy swiping onto my fat, hairy hole every 15 minutes.
Zombieemperor
Make sure to talk alot about beinv involved in (made up) important shit so scammers THINK they need to dig into your info, then just randomly spice in the buttholes. Gotta gettm off gaurd
iusedtodream
😂👍
aThingWithAKeyboard
Bahahhahaha
Fuck AT&T, merely the find out phase of their decade long cost cutting, outsourcing, and general decline.
Cruxia13
Apologies to whoever has to read through the texted kingdom hearts fanfic brainstorming session from new years, we were VERY drunk
HelpfulCorn
It wasn't the content, just the numbers
DJThuglifeSupreme
Really looking forward to getting 20 spam calls and texts a day for months on end again…
darthOnion
AT&T says not connected to when Social Security numbers on 73 million customers was released on the dark web in March. Wait what
iwhannafly
But that is in the past , not in the latest breach
kaneinencanto
US fines won't even make a microscopic change in their profits.
unluckyandbored
Change all your passwords every 30 days. Don't use the same password across multiple places. Don't re-use old passwords. The Feds aren't going to do a fucking thing to these guys that'll make a piss difference, so the onus is on us to protect ourselves.
STGxDante
Wish I saw this before market close.
duktayp
AT&T: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SarcasticComment
ElbowDeepInHorse's private smut being made public
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
mutingisforcowardsandsycophants
"Really, if everyone is exposed, no one is, right? Think about it, it's fine! Anyway we won't allow this to harm our quarterly. If anyone sues us we'll pour billions into our legal defense and draw it out for decades so don't bother."
Comet260
Then the MBAs pat themselves on the back before having a massive coke orgy.
ucandcantunc
Fines should be a double digit percent of profits ...... for every year of inaction.
MightyIink
2 breaches in 1 day, MSI just lost 600k warranty records today, and Zotac was breached a few days ago but not by hackers, they accidentally made their shared drive public...
Poppypoppoppop
Hey, can you access records of this data breach? Might want to check out some politicians names from every party.
popeyeNL
Why does that data still exist ? For what purpose?
IOftenDeleteCommentsCauseISuckAtTyping
This is why I scream my personal information from my balcony every night at 7:30 PM. It's about as secure as being an AT&T customer.
Johnsky
Maybe we can see how many times Trump has called Putin.
DangerBaer
MrHappySmiles
Yay, I’ll get $13 and 7 years of spam phone calls and emails…
iwhannafly
Spam calls along with dark web spam will never stop
SuperfluousMeh
Although I tell you what, ever since the FBI took down a botnet recently, my junk email has nose dived; I'm only getting about six a day. When Putin closed prigohzen's internet research agency, my junk email fell by 3/4.
iwhannafly
I also noticed a huge decrease in junk but still get junk texts
duktayp
I've just been on a full, permanent, fraud/ID theft alert for 20+ years now
AnythingIsADildoIfYoureBraveEnough
Yup, I had my identity stolen in 2021 and now all my credit is frozen. I've got alerts set up on haveibeenpwned.com for my emails, and I change my passwords at least once a year. Shout out to Credit Karma for their free credit monitoring that caught the fraudulent card.
iwhannafly
Funny but i placed account freeze at all 3 agencies..but somehow a dealership sold a car to my husband …freezing your credit doesn’t stop your credit from being used
AnythingIsADildoIfYoureBraveEnough
What credit agency did they run? I recently bought a car and I had about 500 notifications when my credit was run (I unfroze them beforehand).
It's happened to me in the past where I applied for something and it wouldn't go through because I forgot to unfreeze my credit.
iwhannafly
Freeze didn’t work he was able to buy a car
PaperinoVB
In Europe, due to GDPR, this would be a 4% fine on the entire firm revenues, so in the order of some billion dollars. And it would be just the beginning.
VindictiveBathToaster
In the United States, it’ll probably be a fine of something like 100,000,000 which turns out to be 0.001% of their gross profit for the same time period
Dajova
Yeah, we don't always agree on how the EU parliament and commitie handles things, but it's there for a VERY good reason. This is one of them.
TheUglyGuy
So in Europe companies get penalized for being victims of crime? Or just for not having good enough locks?
SirJamesMonster42
You should go take a reading comprehension class or maybe go back to Xitter and upvote Musks xeets. This happened 2 years ago and is just being reported. Plus, companies are required to have really good locks. They just don't want to pay for them.
PaperinoVB
The latter you said. If they manage personal/sensible data they must have a good security level, and should be able to demonstrate it. Moreover, to be compliant with the rules, data have to be always encrypted. This is because in a possible data breach that is demonstrably not their fault - say a zero-day vulnerability in the wild or even a physical theft of a disk - the exfiltrated data must be useless for the attacker.
RooGryphon
thats why i want to move there. you guys actually seem to want to hold corps and people accountable for there actions.
TrustMeImADog
GDPR is an unholy mess. It was designed to prevent mass harvesting and selling of data online. It doesn't. It was never designed to enforce disclosure of every single email that ever mentions you, but that's what it's been used for. The Information Commissioner's Office has updated their guidance many times since it's implementation, including complete about turns on what needs to be handed over. Businesses are left in complete confusion.
cosonfused
Sometimes. and even when we do, the fines ate laughable
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Sometimes. Though I guess that's better than almost never.
TrustMeImADog
I THINK it's 2% on the continent, and 4% in the UK? Unless the upped the GDPR amount from 2 to 4.
lankhmar
It's 4% on the continent, UK basically copied the eu law over as it was during Brexit to avoid losing it
TrustMeImADog
Found it, in Article 83. It's 2 or 4% depending on the nature of the breach. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
divingin
Who does the fine go to?
VindictiveBathToaster
Military budget
PaperinoVB
To the Data Protection Authorities of the single countries emitting the fine, at least until some year ago. Another thing: if the Authority emits a fine, it's immediately effective. No obiections, appeals, and the sum is subject to enforced recovery.
zombiejedediah
Davvero?
That does seems harsh. The company can't take any legal route?
PaperinoVB
There are straight and strict rules. You don't comply, you get fined. Well, in some cases you get a warning before and you have a little time to comply. A little example: if a firm wants to open a website there *must* be a section with all main fiscal data of the firm. Usually it goes in the footer of the main page, but it must be easily reachable. You didn't put your VAT number in? Bad. It's a venial sin, so you get a warning and you get some time to comply. You don't comply? Too bad...