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AT&T Hack Exposes 19,000 Identities

news.com.com — Hackers broke into one of AT&T's computer systems and accessed personal data on thousands of customers who used the carriers online store.

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  • insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15No big deal, AT&T's privacy policy allows them to give your information to any 3rd party. Hackers of course count as a third party.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This just in they caught the people behind the data theft! it was just the NSA the whole time! hahahaha!
  • TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Seems like every couple of days there's a new security breach on a website/ISP which gives out thousands of people's personal data, is security getting worse or are hackers getting better?
  • rick2k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11The title just isnt as catching.. no wonder it wasnt dugg more

    19,000 people is more shocking than some "customers"
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Are you kiddin? Both!" -Carl
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6AT&T's new slogan: "No, you can't have national security. Not yours."
  • therernospoons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"AT&T is offering to pay for credit monitoring services for customers whose accounts have been impacted because they could be at risk of identity fraud."

    At least they are owning up to it. Other companies turn tail and do not even offer an apology nor would they even offer to pay for any credit monitoring service.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is another example of data privacy being a total misnomer wrt internet use. If a company can't keep your personal data private then they shouldn't keep your personal data.
    Data warehousing and offering users 'similar items' etc are great marketing ploys but of no real use to consumers and in cases like AT&T's above, a security risk.
  • Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This was just a test program, soon they will give the personal data of every single AT&T customer to several others.



  • wirelesshnic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Revenge for all the NSA crap! Someone has to do it!
  • elamr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2both. Also, only bad news is reported. Good security is almost never reported.
  • mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Cracker vs Hacker debate has long been dead. "Hacker" is the widely accepted term for computer crackers, and has been for years.
  • crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That doesn't make it right.

    See you at the end of the earth.
  • NightRush, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So thats why they always find girls in my area...
  • Kanundra, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Quit whining because yours didn't hit frontpage
  • RavenLemo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't talk for eveybody, but I just don't care who submitted the story first. Why do you care? You are talking about some people having more powers than others, but actually it's only about you wanting to make the front page. I don't know you and I don't care. I just want to read the story.
  • crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Kazzy, Shut up. Thanks.
  • orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...
  • gd007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2so 19,000 customers all they got?
  • kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ok then, apologies for trying to have this conversation perhaps in the wrong place. Digg is good (I love it), this digg is just fine, etc, etc. Digg on!
  • dawglse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1good thing I bought my gateway/modem/service at the AT&T store :D
  • crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I know why his didn't get voted on.

    Everyone had him blocked for being such a tard, they didn't see his story.
  • thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Zing!
  • Skafloc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4It says 19000 in the article.
  • kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Whining aside (I didn't think I was whining but if it makes you feel better then, sure, whatever), whenever this sort of thing happens (i.e. later story getting promoted to front page rather than original submission), I've noticed a trend among diggers to fit the square peg in the round hole.

    Just because the title here is probably catchier does not mean that's the cause for this story getting promoted faster. We'd like to think that, but it's more complicated. This particular submitter happens to be ranked very high with a huge network of friends. That's probaby just as much the cause as anything else (among other things).

    But we generally don't like discussing things like that because it leads to the discussion about certain diggers having more power and influence when compared to others, something we wish wasn't true because of digg's social-networking-everyone-is-equal founding principles...
  • xkolabx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1nothing is private any more
  • thejof, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Let us be clear here: _crackers_, not "Hackers" expose information maliciously.
  • moxuout2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Sexy
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1AT&T clearly said it was done by hackers. Why are you dodging the issue? Maybe you should tell those hackers to stop acting like criminals.
  • kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Hackers hacked something, big suprise.
  • kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5"19,000 people" is also inaccurate... It was less than 19,000. But shock factor usually trumps accuracy here at digg...
  • kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -31/+1dupe: http://digg.com/security/AT_T_Customers_Credit_Card_Data_Accessed_Illegally

    Please digg original.

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