Almost all customers call, text records exposed in 2022 data breach WSOC TV [Video]

AT&T on Friday said a 2022 data breach exposed the call and text messages of “nearly all” cellular customers and wireless providers that use its network.

In a news release, AT&T said that data belonging to “nearly all” customers was “illegally downloaded” from a third-party cloud platform. The third-party platform was identified by a company spokesperson as Snowflake Inc, Bloomberg reported.

The company said, “We have taken steps to close off the illegal access point.”

The breach happened between May 1, 2022, and October 31, 2022. A “very small number” of customers’ data was exposed on January 2, 2023.

Those with AT&T landlines who interacted with the cell phone customers also were impacted.

Customer names were not part of the breach. However, as CNN pointed out, there are services that can connect cell phone numbers with people’s names.

“The data does not contain the content of calls or texts, personal information such as Social …