AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people – nearly all of its customers. AT&T said it delayed disclosing the incident in response to “national security and public safety concerns,” noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent. AT&T also acknowledged the customer records were exposed in a cloud database that was protected only by a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).
Proper headline: AT&T doesn’t do enough to secure their customer data and allows people to easily take it. Purposely hid the theft in order to prepare for the blowback and only protect themselves. No punishment for corporation’s will be issues at any point. Millions in grants will instead be given to at&t for simply existing.
You left out that they retain too much customer data.
