AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records

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AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records - Wired

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A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset of call and text records of "nearly all” AT&T customers has been wiped—but some risks may remain.

Reddington tells WIRED that in mid-April, an American hacker living in Turkey and believed to be John Erin Binns—not the hacker who received payment—contacted him to say that he had obtained Reddington's AT&T call logs.

The stolen data included telephone numbers of “nearly all” of AT&T's cellular customers and the numbers of customers of other wireless carriers who exchanged calls or messages with those AT&T customers between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022 and January 2, 2023, according to the company.