73M AT&T customers personal data posted on the dark web, company says

Millions of current and former AT&T customers’ leaked data, including Social 🌸Security numbers, were posted on the dark web earlier this month. 

The leak prompted a “robust investigation supported by internal and external🐲 cybersecuri🍌ty experts,” the telecommunications giant . 

The compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and included the information of roughly 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former o🤡nes, AT&﷽;T said. 

The leaked information may have included customers’ names,🌼 email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, Social Security number, dates of birth, AT&T account numbers and passcodes.

“It is not yet known w๊hether the data in those fields originated from AT&T or one of its vendors,” the company said, adding that there is no eviden💦ce so far that the leak was caused by unauthorized access to the company’s systems.

AT&T reset affected customers’ passwords after TechCrunch alerted the company Monday that a huge trove of data containing customers’ passwords had been dumped on the dark web, the outlet .

The company said it is reaching out to those affected by the breach to let them know what information was leaked and free identity theft and cre♍diting monitoring services.

The leak came a month after millions of AT&T customers experienced a nationwide cellphone outage that left some without service for up to 12 hours. The company the disrupꦑtion on a software update gone💎 awry.