Patrick Smith is a London-based editor and reporter for NBC News Digital.
Hackers stole six months’ worth of call and text message records of nearly every AT&T cellular network customer, the company said Friday, a breach that has the potential to reveal sensitive information about millions of Americans. The company said in an SEC filing that it learned from an internal investigation that in April, hackers “unlawfully accessed and copied AT&T call logs” that were saved on a third-party cloud platform.
John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which focuses on communications technology and security, called the hack a “megabreach,” emphasizing that metadata stolen at this scale has the potential to be a major national security threat as well as a problem for businesses and individuals.
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