Hackers Steal Phone Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customers | Phones

Hackers broke into a cloud platform used by AT&T and accessed the phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular customers, AT&T announced on Friday.

AT&T said the stolen data contains phone numbers of both cellular and landline customers, as well as AT&T records of calls and text messages across a six-month period between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022.

AT&T said some of the stolen data includes more recent records from January 2, 2023 for a smaller, unspecified number of customers, as well as call records of customers with other cellular carriers that rely on AT&T’s network.

Some of the records include cell site identification numbers linked to calls and texts, which can be used to work out the approximate location of where a call was made or message sent.

The downloaded data doesn’t include the content of any calls or texts, or their time stamps, according to AT&T. It also doesn’t have any details such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or other personally…