AT&T reportedly paid a hacker more than $370,000 to remove stolen customer data. In an extraordinary turn of events, the ransom may not have gone to those responsible for the breach.
Last Friday, AT&T disclosed that an April data breach had exposed the call and text records of “nearly all” of its customers, including phone numbers and call counts. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), AT&T claimed it has since tightened its cybersecurity measures and is working together with law authorities to investigate the incident.
It now appears that AT&T has taken additional steps in response to the intrusion. According to Wired, AT&T paid a ransom of 5.7 bitcoin to a member of the hacking group ShinyHunters in mid-May, which was worth little more than $373,000 at the time. In exchange for this money, the hacker allegedly deleted the stolen data from the cloud server where it was stored, as well as providing video footage of the act.
However, there is no guarantee that the millions of people affected by the latest massive AT&T attack will be entirely safe, as digital data can be easily copied. The security e
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