AT&T suffers massive breach: Hackers steal data of over 86 million customers; what the company said

AT&T has reportedly suffered a massive data breach, with hackers gaining access to the personal data of over 86 million customers. Currently, the telecom provider has nearly 100 million customers in the US, and hackers have reportedly uploaded the personal information of most of them on the dark web. According to a report from Hack Read, the leaked details include full names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email as well as physical addresses of AT&T customers. The report claims that more than 44 million Social Security Numbers were also reportedly part of the data leak. Individually, these data sets pose privacy risks; when combined, they could help in the creation of complete identity profiles for defraud or identity theft, the report adds