AT&T says users who are affected by recent cyberattacks are not from company’s servers

Last week T-Mobile raised the issue after it confirmed the biggest fraud in customer data – its fourth fraud in four years. It has recently emerged that something similar is happening to its rival in charge of the country, AT&T a post on an illegal hacker forum claiming to have customer data from 70 million people, valued at $200,000. But unlike T-Mobile’s response, AT&T says its sample data investigation shows it does not come from the company’s servers.

MarketWatch cited an AT&T email sent to members of the media: “According to our investigation today, the information seen in the online chat does not appear to be from our programs.” The obvious conclusion is that it is possible that data was collected from third-party sources provided access to AT&T’s customer information (which is quite possible), or that the poster at the forum simply creates data and requires a quick payment date.

That could also happen, we are talking about criminals who steal data illegally in order to sell it for the purpose of identity theft. It is not hard to believe that people who say they will be more than just sleeping their way through the air. Now maybe a natural time to do so, soon after the same company confirmed another successful entry of its programs.

In the same letter, it should also point out that a large telecommunications company has sufficient reasons to, should we, say, “play down” the news that its data security is not true. The only thing we can say for sure is that customer data attacks, as well as the market and culture around them, are not going away anytime soon.

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