Cyber Criminals Siphoned 'Almost All' of AT&T's Call Logs Over Six Months

Hackers accessed AT&T’s data storage platform in April, stealing metadata from “nearly all” call records and messages sent by users over a six-month period in 2022. AT&T filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, stating that it learned of the incident on April 19.

The company revealed to a local media outlet that the breach took place via the third-party cloud platform Snowflake, a data storage giant plagued by hackers who have attacked some of the company’s most notable clients and released stuff affecting hundreds of millions of individuals.

An investigation revealed the attacker stole files from AT&T’s Snowflake account between April 14 and April 25.

When asked why the attacker was still able to access the Snowflake account nearly a week after AT&T detected the issue, the spokesman stated that it “took time to investigate the claim of a breach, determine its source, isolate the impacted data, and close off the illegal access point.”

The spokesperson stated that the hackers took “aggregated metadata” regarding calls or messages, not the content of the talks. AT&T has the most wireless sub

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