AT&T confirms data breach exposed personal info of up to 73 million customers

AT&T is notifying 51-73 million current or former customers that their personal data was compromised and published on the dark web in June 2021. The data includes names, contact info, SSNs, DOBs, account info.

AT&T originally claimed in 2021 that the published data did not belong to its customers, but recently confirmed that it did.

The passcodes were stored in an encrypted format that could be easily decrypted.

It's unclear how the data breach occurred. AT&T took over 2 years to confirm the data belonged to customers after it was first published.

Customers should watch out for potential scams using the exposed info. AT&T is offering 1 year of identity theft protection.