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Cybersecurity experts are urging AT&T customers to ramp up their information measures, specified arsenic changing their passwords, pursuing a information breach that impacted 73 cardinal existent and erstwhile accounts.
Bob Huber, main information serviceman of cybersecurity institution Tenable, told FOX Business that "affected customers should alteration their passwords instantly and group up two-factor authentication wherever possible."
The institution said it is assessing nan breach and whether nan data, which was leaked to nan acheronian web 2 weeks agone and includes Social Security numbers, came from AT&T itself aliases 1 of its vendors.
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The information appears to beryllium from 2019 aliases earlier, cybersecurity experts hired by AT&T to do a "robust investigation" found, affecting 7.6 cardinal existent relationship holders and astir 65.4 cardinal erstwhile relationship holders.
Workers and customers connected nan income level of an AT&T shop successful Miami connected Monday. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Consumers "have nan devices to regain power complete leaked individual accusation correct successful beforehand of us," Tazin Khan, laminitis of Cyber Collective, told FOX Business.
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Huber and Khan said customers should cheque their inbox for immoderate breach notifications from AT&T. Customers tin besides usage reputable services for illustration "Have I Been Pwned" to spot if their email aliases telephone number is portion of a information breach, Khan said.
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Protecting yourself aft a information breach
When you alteration your AT&T relationship password, retrieve to alteration immoderate different relationship that uses nan aforesaid password, Khan said.
She besides warned that customers request to "be wary of phishing attempts; ne'er click connected suspicious links aliases supply individual accusation successful consequence to unsolicited communications."
A female walks past signage for AT&T successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 22. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via / Getty Images)
Due to nan truth that location was a breach of Social Security numbers, it's besides important to interaction awesome in installments reporting agencies successful bid to spot fraud alerts and in installments freezes connected accounts, according to Khan.
Customers should besides monitor in installments reports for different activity, Huber and Khan said. This should beryllium done crossed each financial accounts.
Impacted customers tin besides telephone their banks to alert them astir nan breach and not to authorize immoderate changes successful an account.
"I besides urge changing nan answers to each of your information questions for your banks, in installments paper accounts and net and telephone services," Khan added.
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As an other step, customers tin besides study nan incident to nan Federal Trade Commission (FTC) done their personality theft reporting website successful bid to get up of nan breached Social Security number, according to Khan.
