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Knee jerk reaction, unless you're talking about the hackers, of course.
If ATT is holding these messages/call logs then they're responsible for their security. If they want to dump them that's fine with me. I honestly don't see why they hold onto to any of this stuff.
They're required to.
Bloody surveillance state. And ATT certainly doesn't mind - they charge law enforcement to process requests and they sell customer data out the back door. It's an incestuous, corrupt relationship.
Yeah, sorry, no breaking into dance.
Okay, but this sounds like fining your bank because it got robbed. As far as we know, AT&T is 100% the victim in this scenario.
I drop off my car at the dealership for maintenance. It gets stolen out of their lot. You're saying the dealership isn't responsible for reasonable care?
Phishing has increased noticeably in the last couple of weeks. We've been getting McAfee and other tech scam emails. You've been charged for an Apple Watch is a popular one, too. Use extreme caution here.
Not even slightly equivalent. And you should know that. A hacker does not have to physically take an item.
Come on, don't make me send that thing a 7th time! Just click the link already!
About to see how real that is.
Funny you mention that. A coworker and I were just discussing today how many more scam phone calls we’ve been getting lately. I’ve seen an increase in texts asking me to sell my house as well. And probably most bizarrely, I’ve received a couple of texts that I’m pretty sure are scams pretending to be innocently sent texts to wrong numbers.
I know it’s real. I even googled it after seeing this thread and AT&T had instructions for customers to turn off iMessage if they wanted to use a logging feature, which I didn’t even know existed. AT&T would have had to maliciously decrypt all iMessages while transferring data over their network. That would be much bigger news.
That is exactly what they are doing. Do not engage.
Yup, both times I deleted and reported as junk without actually opening the message.
Same here and I had figured there had been some kind of breach somewhere and then I saw this story today. Maybe unrelated though
Correct, though it still represents a treasure trove of info that can be gleaned from it. Especially if people can match it up with other previous stolen data. It would be pretty trivial to match up names, phone numbers and addresses from previous leaks to this. Then, you could figure out exactly who is calling who. That’s blackmail or intelligence gold right there.
Luckily I'm not on AT&T.
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Are you implying that intellectual property has no value? Or that privacy breaches aren’t harmful to those violated?
I find them to be very equivalent. When you hire someone they must take due care with your property if they are entrusted with it. They have responsibility in both scenarios to safeguard what they are hired to hold.
The OPM breach is the one that still chaps my ***, as very sensitive information (fingerprints and a litany of personal history) about me and many, many others were stolen. But, of course, the feds can't be held responsible.
Weird. Two days ago I got a text from a SF area code asking me if I was Abbey Wilis. Stupidly I was polite and said no. They just said my bad and then I deleted it. Never heard from them again. Probably part of this scam? I don’t get the angle but seems like too much of a coincidence.
Dunno - this is the wiki on it. No details as to where the hole was - I'm sure kept secret for govt. security purposes.
www.forbes.com
