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AT&T Data Breach - WTF?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:02 pm
Today my payment card provider sent notice that my SSN and other private data was compromised in that big AT&T data breach.
However we haven't been AT&T customers for more than 20 years.
I'm guessing that some shifty credit reporting bureau outsourced its data processing to AT&T's leaky servers.
Anybody got a better explanation?
However we haven't been AT&T customers for more than 20 years.
I'm guessing that some shifty credit reporting bureau outsourced its data processing to AT&T's leaky servers.
Anybody got a better explanation?
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Posted on 4/19/24 at 5:40 pm to WB Davis
The ATT hack was from like 2017 or 2016, and I'm pretty sure they got all the old customer data as well as new. My stuff was in there, it had an old address from 2010 or so.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 9:35 pm to j1897
What service do you use that shows you exactly what they were able to steal? Everything I have just says SS#
Posted on 4/19/24 at 10:38 pm to WB Davis
It is usually from a third party provider that you didn't even know was having your data shipped to them.
On the plus side, if you were military or had a clearance, far, far, more was leaked due to OPMB breaches.
Everything you do, you must enable MFA.
On the plus side, if you were military or had a clearance, far, far, more was leaked due to OPMB breaches.
Everything you do, you must enable MFA.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:20 am to Weekend Warrior79
quote:The reporting service is operated by the payment card company, but it only reported that the SSN was exposed and the source.
What service do you use that shows you exactly what they were able to steal
Posted on 4/20/24 at 10:18 am to LemmyLives
quote:
On the plus side, if you were military or had a clearance, far, far, more was leaked due to OPMB breaches.
Or a credit report. Equifax was breached a few years ago and give up everything.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:03 pm to 3deadtrolls
It took probably 20 minutes to create free accounts at Experian, TransUnion and Equifax to freeze my credit and prevent anyone else from using that breached data.
Should have done this years ago.
NerdWallet link with instructions to freeze your credit.
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ETA: Experian seem like real slimeballs. 24 hours after I froze my credit, they sent me an email with a login link saying "don't forget to START your security freeze."
That email link gave no free way to confirm my credit freeze, only options to buy paid monitoring subscriptions.
So I logged in again with the free URL in the NerdWallet article, using the credentials I created the day before, and found that my credit was frozen as I configured it.
Scary to think people this sleazy control your credit report.
Should have done this years ago.
NerdWallet link with instructions to freeze your credit.
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ETA: Experian seem like real slimeballs. 24 hours after I froze my credit, they sent me an email with a login link saying "don't forget to START your security freeze."
That email link gave no free way to confirm my credit freeze, only options to buy paid monitoring subscriptions.
So I logged in again with the free URL in the NerdWallet article, using the credentials I created the day before, and found that my credit was frozen as I configured it.
Scary to think people this sleazy control your credit report.
This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 10:56 am
Posted on 4/21/24 at 1:17 pm to WB Davis
Easy Boomer, I promise your data was out there before ATT was breached.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 7:00 pm to WB Davis
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Experian, TransUnion and Equifax - freeze my credit
I'd go to ChexSystems also and freeze your info. The piece of shite hacker fricks can still open bank accounts if you don't freeze your info with ChexSystems. Banks don't pull credit when opening checking, savings, etc. They use ChexSystems to pull your history in order to see how you managed your liquid accounts.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 2:25 pm to LemmyLives
quote:
Everything you do, you must enable MFA.
And preferably with an authenticator app instead of text message verification.
If you do SMS verification, make sure there's a PIN or verbal password on your account so you don't get SIM card swapped.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 8:26 pm to WB Davis
I got the same notification. What morons.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 10:11 pm to WB Davis
All your data belong to sky net.
This post was edited on 4/22/24 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 4/23/24 at 5:34 pm to WB Davis
AT&T has a hard time not sucking.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:27 am to WB Davis
congrats you get some free credit monitoring.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:51 pm to WB Davis
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ETA: Experian seem like real slimeballs.
They also want you to pay to put a fraud alert on your report. It's best to do the fraud alert at Transunion for free and they will forward it to the other two.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 11:16 pm to dgnx6
quote:
congrats you get some free credit monitoring.
I got the letter today explaining the different options we have.
I think I still have active credit monitoring because of the Louisiana DMV data breach. I wonder if I can do it with AT&T if it’s still active because of DMV breach? It has to be activated by August 30 of this year.
AT&T being AT&T, the 10 digit activation code doesn’t work, after googling this, it’s a know problem. They get hacked and still manage to frick up the supposed fix.
This post was edited on 5/4/24 at 12:20 am
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:28 pm to WB Davis
I'm sure the entire AT&T hack was an effort to get Lily's info.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 6:29 pm to WB Davis
On Friday I started getting massive spam calls, wonder if this is the reason.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 9:35 am to LemmyLives
quote:
Everything you do, you must enable MFA.
Yes, this plus lock your credit reports.
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