AT&T has been hit by a data breach impacting 73 million current and former account holders, including personal information such as Social Security numbers, the telecommunications company recently disclosed.
Following a release of customer data on the dark web two weeks ago, AT&T launched an investigation and determined that the data was from 2019 or earlier and impacted 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders, AT&T said.
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