AT&T Loses "Fewer than 19,000" Customer Credit Card Numbers

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Imagine standing in the middle of a baseball stadium with "fewer than 19,000" fans and announcing to the crowd that every single person in the stadium's credit card data had been stolen. That's a bit different from how AT&T is framing their latest security breach, but the picture is paints is suitable: AT&T says hackers accessed customers' cards - Yahoo! News

"Hackers broke into one of AT&T Inc.'s computer networks and stole credit card data and other personal information from several thousand customers who shopped at the telecommunication giant's online store. ADVERTISEMENT AT&T said it was notifying "fewer than 19,000" customers whose data was accessed during the weekend break-in, which it said was detected within hours."

Listen to this article posted by Ed Kohler on August 30, 2006 10:52 AM | Permalink
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