#att breach

AT&T says massive breach of data impacting 71 million people did not originate from its systems after a hacker leaked it on a cybercrime forum and claimed it was stolen in 2021 breach of the company.  

The data is from an alleged 2021 AT&T data breach that a threat actor famous as ShinyHunters tried to sell on the Radio Forums data theft forum for starting price of $200,000 and incremental offers of $30,000. 

The hackers stated they would sell it for $1 million.

AT&T told the media the data did not originate from them and systems were not breached.

They still see no evidence of a breach in their systems and still believe that this data did not originate from them.

AT&T does not respond that it was possible the data come from 3rd party service provider or vendor but has not get a reply at this time.