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AT&T resets passwords of its users after data winds up on dark web

The company asks that anyone with a question contact them

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AT&T found itself in the pickle of all pickles over the weekend – it discovered that a data set released on the dark web contained AT&T data-specific fields. To stop any potential bleeding, the company has reset user passwords.

That’s not just current users, but former ones, too. AT&T said that based on its preliminary analysis, the data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million ...

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