{"id":24323,"date":"2024-04-15T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/news-18053\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:11:15","slug":"news-18053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/news-18053\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check if your data was exposed in the AT&#038;T breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AT&amp;T has <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.web.maine.gov\/online\/aeviewer\/ME\/40\/3778e1fc-2ed5-461d-9cc5-df15c07f687c.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">notified US state authorities and regulators<\/a> about its recent (or not) data breach, saying 51,226,382 people were affected. <\/p>\n<p>For those that have missed the story so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back in 2021, a hacker named Shiny Hunters claimed to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/atandt-denies-data-breach-after-hacker-auctions-70-million-user-database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">breached AT&amp;T<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On March 20, 2024, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2024\/03\/the-att-breach-what-you-need-to-know\">reported<\/a> how the data of over 70 million people was posted for sale on an online cybercrime forum. The seller claimed the data came from the Shiny Hunters breach. However, AT&amp;T denied (both in 2021 and in March, 2024) that the data came from its systems.<\/li>\n<li>On March 30, AT&amp;T reset customer passcodes after a security researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/03\/30\/att-reset-account-passcodes-customer-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">discovered<\/a> the encrypted login passcodes found in the leaked data were easy to decipher.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, on April 2, 2024, AT&amp;T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2024\/04\/att-confirms-73-million-people-affected-by-data-breach\">confirmed&nbsp;<\/a>that 73 million current and former customers were caught up the data leak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Weirdly enough, in the data breach notification, AT&amp;T says the date of discovery of the breach was March 26, 2024. AT&amp;T has still not disclosed the source of the leak, but says the data appears to be from June 2019 or earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Malwarebytes VP of Consumer Privacy, Oren Arar, describes the AT&amp;T breach as \u201cespecially risky\u201d because of the type of data that\u2019s been exposed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cSSN, name, date of birth\u2014this is personal identifiable information (PII) that cannot be changed, and if scammers get their hands on it, it just makes their work in stealing people\u2019s identities a lot easier. In addition, this exposed data was published on the internet &#8211; in a way that anyone could access it, and not on the dark web where you need some expertise to find it&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-check-if-your-data-was-exposed\">Check if your data was exposed<\/h2>\n<p>Malwarebytes has an easy, free tool\u2014the Malwarebytes Digital Footprint Portal\u2014that allows you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/digital-footprint-att\">check if your data was exposed in the AT&amp;T breach<\/a>. Simply click the button below, enter your email address, and follow the prompts on the screen. <\/p>\n<p>After our tool completes a digital footprint analysis on the internet and the dark web, you will be presented with a small graphic that directly addresses your involvement in the AT&amp;T breach, with other relevant information. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1428\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/DFP-Results-Selection-NoATTBreach-1.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108749\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Digital Footprint Portal reveals what information about a person is available online.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When receiving your Digital Footprint Portal results, a pink bubble with the words &#8220;Exposed on AT&amp;T breach&#8221; mean that your information was affected in the AT&amp;T breach. <\/p>\n<p>A green bubble with the words &#8220;Not exposed on AT&amp;T breach&#8221; mean that your information was not affected in the AT&amp;T breach\u2014but it <em>may<\/em> still have been leaked through various, other breaches, which our tool can provide more information on. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"438\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-11-at-2.44.06\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108731\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Two possible results from the Digital Footprint Portal about a person&#8217;s exposure in the AT&amp;T breach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p> Click the button below to begin your free, digital scan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/digital-footprint-att\">Scan for free today. <\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We will keep you posted of any new developments in this case. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p><strong>We don&#8217;t just report on threats &#8211; we help safeguard your entire digital identit<\/strong>y<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Protect your\u2014and your family&#8217;s\u2014personal information by using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/identity-theft-protection\">identity protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2024\/04\/how-to-check-if-your-data-was-part-of-the-att-breach\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We&#8217;ve made it easy for you to check if your data has been exposed in the AT&#038;T breach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[32,5897],"class_list":["post-24323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-news","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}