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re: AT&T hackers stole all customers calls and texts records

Posted on 7/12/24 at 11:38 am to
Posted by LanierSpots
Sarasota, Florida
Member since Sep 2010
68956 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 11:38 am to
As I said in the last ATT thread.

frick them with a rusty pipe. I hope they all DIAF


Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
24947 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 11:41 am to
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Once that shite hits the dark web all hell is gonna break loose. Imagine knowing everyone anyone you know has talked to. Divorce lawyers finna eat!


Doubt it. This isn't like the Ashley Madison hack where just having your name on that list was instantly incriminating.

Without the actual content of the messages, that data is practically worthless to hackers. At least pertaining to the average Joe. I guess the list of phone numbers that a prominent politician or celebrity called / texted may be worth something

They were probably breaking into AT&T's systems trying to steal personal data like SSN's and credit card numbers and just failed to breach that part of the system.
Posted by OU Guy
Member since Feb 2022
23692 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 11:46 am to
Great, now they have all the spam calls/texts I got from politicians. Hope they spam them back.
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
14234 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:08 pm to
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Source?

If this was true... I would be in jail a long time ago LOL

They didn't give a damn about busting every Joe Blow who talks about buying a nickel bag of weed on their phone. It's all for safe keeping, insurance. Want to find out? Run for political office and get high enough up the food chain. Senator. Congressman. Etc. You'll find out how they know about your skeletons.
Posted by Saunson69
Stephen the Pirate
Member since May 2023
8230 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:32 pm to
They keep track, so you can see your data usage. If you sign in to your ATT account and click on your number, you can see data usage. It shows who you called or texted and the amount of data used. This is important if you have limited data. I don't see any problem of them keeping records, so you can see.
Posted by sqerty
AP
Member since May 2022
8061 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:39 pm to
I don't think att does sms, don't they outsource to another company?
Posted by HooDooWitch
TD Bronze member
Member since Sep 2009
11120 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:39 pm to

They are always listening and reading
Posted by Landmass
Premium Member
Member since Jun 2013
23730 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:42 pm to
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Am I the only one who’s thinking the bigger concern is ATT keeping recordings of all our phone calls and storing all of our private texts? They claim to not have the content, but I don’t necessarily believe them


AT&T converted their windowless building in NYC to an NSA mass surveillance site. It's considered a "conspiracy theory." However, I used to work for a company that had access to high level network engineers at AT&T and one of them told me about this building and that they did in fact build it for mass surveillance using quantum computing to parse through the data.

So, you should always know that everything you do around your cell phone is indeed being monitored by government agents.


Posted by SlidellCajun
Slidell la
Member since May 2019
15593 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:44 pm to
I’ve been getting a lot of random texts from unknown numbers
Posted by Abraham H Parnassis
Member since Jul 2020
2639 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:52 pm to
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at&t owns and operates the largest data center that NSA uses to monitor everything.
Are we talking about LINK ]33 Thomas St. and TITANPOINTE?
Posted by BitBuster
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2017
1598 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 1:20 pm to
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Doubt it. This isn't like the Ashley Madison hack where just having your name on that list was instantly incriminating.


When the data gets dumped there will be a whole lot of people searching for their spouse/significant others number to see if they been chatting with someone they don’t know about. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted by Tantal
Member since Sep 2012
18905 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 1:46 pm to
They're going to be bored as hell going through my shite. There are a few spicy memes, but that's about it.
This post was edited on 7/12/24 at 2:47 pm
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
85243 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 2:58 pm to
I mean who didnt know your shite was stored on a server somewhere?


You thought your dick pics were private?


Posted by Roy Curado
Member since Jul 2021
1432 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 3:27 pm to
Take the tinfoil hat off my guy...
Posted by Zarkinletch416
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Member since Jan 2020
8689 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 3:35 pm to
Yep, I always figured ‘ big brother was listening in on our conversations (and reading our text).
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104094 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 3:40 pm to
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In its statement, AT&T said the compromised data doesn't include the content of the calls or texts, or personal information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates or other personally identifiable information.


So what exactly does it consist of?
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
12871 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 4:07 pm to
If they were committed to security and privacy, they would have multi-factor authentication used on every admin account, or any account/resource that had any production (non sanitized) data across the board. They weren't using MFA on the Snowflake database that was compromised.

Think about it: you can't even log into H-E-B.com to order curbside groceries with at least having a one time code sent to your email/text. But 110 million customer's metadata. Too much trouble.
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
14234 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 5:00 pm to
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Take the tinfoil hat off my guy...

Just accept that you're stupid. This has been public information for over a decade.

LINK
Posted by ell_13
Member since Apr 2013
87174 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 5:50 pm to
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You don’t know what they actually have.
Yes I do.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
78697 posts
Posted on 7/12/24 at 6:10 pm to
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Call records are not recordings. Just a timestamp, source and destination numbers, call duration.


Ma Bell had those records 40 years ago.
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