Failed AT&T Hack Attempt Targeted One Million Customers
Threat Post reports in a recent announcement that AT&T said that hackers made an organized and systematic attempt to gain access to nearly one million of its customers’ online accounts. The phone company assured customers in an e-mail their accounts were intact. AT&T does not believe that the perpetrators of this attack obtained access to online accounts or any of the information contained in those accounts. While no information appears to have been breached here, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said the company has launched an ongoing investigation to further identify the hack’s intent. AT&T, the largest phone company in the world, has 100.7 million wireless subscribers, yet only 1 percent of them, approximately one million customers, were targeted by the attack, in which hackers used automated scripts to try to match up customer telephone numbers with account numbers and gain access to accounts.
