Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. ” reads a statement published by the telecommunication giant. Today 70,000,000+ records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached. million former account holders.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T initially denied any data breach, below is the statement from the telecomunication giant : “Based on our investigation Thursday, the information that appeared in an internet chat room does not appear to have come from our systems,” Later, the telecommunications company retracted its initial denial and confirmed the data breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Bad news for the Australian telecommunications industry, the largest company in the country Telstra suffered a data breach. Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed a data breach through a third-party supplier. It seems that the security breach also impacted other companies.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The attack did not impact radio and cable TV broadcasts, while SIC’s internet streaming transmission was interrupted. The gang also targeted the South American telecommunication providers Claro and Embratel. The post Lapsus$ ransomware gang hits Impresa, Portugal’s largest media conglomerate appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

.” The arrest is the result of Operation Guardian led by AFP which became aware of a number of text messages demanding some Optus customers transfer $2000 to a bank account or face their personal information being used for financial crimes. The database belonging to the company was leaked on a cybercrime forum.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. ” reads the Publish Service Announcement published by the IC3.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

These DDoS attacks attempt to consume the bandwidth either within the target network/service, or between the target network/service and the rest of the Internet. One of the targets of the attacks was a major APAC-based Internet services, telecommunications and hosting provider. ” reads a post published by the company.

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