AT&T blames marketing bods for exposing 9M subscriber account records
AT&T has confirmed that miscreants accessed nine million of its wireless customers' accounts after one of its vendor's networks suffered a security failure in January.
The telecommunications giant told us that these users' customer proprietary network information accessed — but said the data said was"several years old," and"mostly relating to device upgrade eligibility.", an AT&T spokesperson said: A vendor that we use for marketing experienced a security incident. Customer Proprietary Network Information from some wireless accounts was exposed, such as the number of lines on an account or wireless rate plan. The information did not contain credit card information, Social Security Number, account passwords or other sensitive personal information. We are notifying affected customers., AT&T confirmed that the vendor has since addressed whatever security shortcoming led to the above.
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