AT&T confirmed on Monday this month that had suffered a AT&T insider data breach. AT&T issued a warning to consumers about an insider that illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified amount of users. In a letter to the Vermont attorney general, officials for the carrier said a former staffer accessed customer account information, including not only driver’s license and Social Security numbers.
The U.S. carrier apologized for the incident and claimed that the employee who did this no longer works for AT&T for violated the company’s privacy and accessing the account information of customers. The company reported that the violator looked through without proper authorization Customer Proprietary Network Information (or CPNI).
CPNI includes information of phone calls such as destination, duration and time. There is no number many customers whose accounts were affected by the breach. The carrier has also alerted those whose information may have been compromised. At least AT&T is being honest about AT&T insider data breach October and offers them a free one-year subscription to a credit monitoring service. The AT&T company recommends that customers change their usernames and passwords as a precautionary measure.
And this AT&T violator data breach October is the second time this year the company admitted to suffering a security breach. The first occasion was in June.