1y ago

AT&T confirms data for 73 million customers leaked on hacker forum

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AT&T has finally confirmed it is impacted by a data breach affecting 73 million current and former customers after initially denying the leaked data originated from them.

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I just got a notification that includes
It appears the data is from more than 4 years ago and does not contain personal financial information or call history.
And later it says
What information was involved? The information varied by customer and account, but may have included full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode.
What do they have that they consider personal if this doesn’t qualify?
Eventually we're gonna have to have a way to change our social security number like we do with credit cards when they get hacked.
- Why would that ever be possible? None of this hacking is a problem that affects rich people. Why would the United States do a law that helps normal people?
  
  Fwiw this doesn't affect very poor people either lmao
  
  it is possible.
- you can.
  We can assign a different number only if:
  Sequential numbers assigned to members of the same family are causing problems.
  More than one person is assigned or using the same number.
  A victim of identity theft, who has attempted to fix problems resulting from the misuse but continues to be disadvantaged by using the original number.
  There is a situation of harassment, abuse or life endangerment.
  An individual has religious or cultural objections to certain numbers or digits in the original number. (We require written documentation in support of the objection from a religious group with which the number holder has an established relationship.) To request a different Social Security number, contact your local Social Security office for an in-person appointment.
  https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02220
  
  This is actually a horrible implementation though, because they just tie your new number to your old number. They don’t invalidate your old number at all. So now you have two SSNs that can be used to steal your identity.
The standard fine for this should be $1000 per customer affected. Because they denied it, it should be doubled.
Bankrupt and break up incompetent/corrupt corporations.
- But how would capitalizm survive without any corporations left after that?
There is an information war, and no country, or person is winning or even fully aware it is even a war.

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