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CyberScoop: Phone, text message records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers stolen
July 12, 2024
Chris Frascella, a counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said that the cell site ID numbers can be used to deduce approximate locations, which can further reveal sensitive information — like if an individual made a call near a protest. It’s not yet clear, however, if individuals who are not AT&T customers and received a call from a person in the breached data set would be impacted by approximate location metadata.
“Every phone number you’ve called or received has been disclosed, during the time period that the breach covers, so even though they don’t necessarily know the content of the communications, you probably still don’t want them knowing who you’re getting and giving calls to and from,” Frascella said. “Are you calling an oncologist office? Are you calling your attorney and is that a divorce attorney? Like sensitive types of calls that even just knowing the phone number can reveal information about you.”
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