Did AT&T really pay a ransom for deletion of stolen call logs ?
Reporters from WIRED and Bloomberg interviewed a hacker who claimed to have been paid by AT&T. The hacker provided both outlets with a Bitcoin wallet address and a video showing them deleting the data. AT&T did not comment when asked about the alleged payment, which supposedly occurred in May. WIRED’s cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter reported that the hacker is part of the ShinyHunters group and worked with John Erin Binns on organizing the stolen data.
AT&T informed the SEC on Friday that metadata from “nearly all” call logs and texts made by AT&T customers over a six-month period in 2022 was stolen.
A spokesperson for the telecom giant confirmed that approximately 109 million people were affected. Although the breach did not include the content of text messages or call recordings, it did involve “records of calls and texts of nearly all of AT&T’s wireless customers and customers of mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) using AT&T’s wireless network.”
“These records identify the telephone numbers with which an AT&T or MVNO wireless number interacted during these periods, including telephone numbers of AT&T wireline customers and customers of other carriers, counts of those interactions, and aggregate call duration for a day or month,” the company said in the SEC filing.

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