https://www.wired.com/story/atandt-paid-hacker-300000-to-delete-stolen-call-records/--
AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
US telecom giant AT&T, which disclosed Friday that hackers had stolen the call records for tens of millions of its customers, paid a member of the hacking team more than $300,000 to delete the data and provide a video demonstrating proof of deletion.
The hacker, who is part of the notorious ShinyHunters hacking group that
has stolen data from a number of victims through unsecured Snowflake cloud storage accounts, tells WIRED that AT&T paid the ransom in May.
What's a Snowflake cloud account?
On 2024-07-15 00:27, VanguardLH wrote:
https://www.securityweek.com/millions-impacted-by-breach-at-advance-auto-parts-linked-to-snowflake-incident/
"Starting mid-April, the attackers accessed Snowflake accounts that
lacked multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections and network allow
lists, and then attempted to extort the victim organizations by
threatening to leak the stolen data."
Article says:
<<< "On July 10, Advance Auto Parts disclosed to the Maine Attorney General’s Office that the personal information of 2,316,591 individuals was stolen from its Snowflake account and that it has started sending
data breach notifications.
The compromised personal information, the company says, includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and other government-issued identification numbers. >>>
Why does a parts vendor need birth date and SSNs, etc?
Sysop: | DaiTengu |
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Location: | Appleton, WI |
Users: | 969 |
Nodes: | 10 (1 / 9) |
Uptime: | 64:34:39 |
Calls: | 12,721 |
Calls today: | 7 |
Files: | 186,574 |
Messages: | 3,170,626 |
Posted today: | 3 |