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AT&T says leaked data set impacts about 73 million current, former account holders By Reuters

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(Reuters) -Telecom company AT&T (NYSE:) said on Saturday that a data set released on the โ€œdark webโ€ about two weeks ago has impacted approximately 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders, based on the companyโ€™s preliminary analysis of the incident.

The data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier, the company said in a statement. It said it does not have evidence of unauthorized access to its systems resulting from the incident.

The company said it is not yet known whether the data originated from AT&T or from one of its vendors.

AT&T said the incident has not had a material impact on its operations, and said the source of the data is still being assessed.

AT&T said it is in contact with those impacted and will offer credit monitoring wherever applicable.

AT&T is resetting customer account passcodes after the leak, TechCrunch reported on Saturday.

AT&T did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for further comment.

The wireless carrierโ€™s 5G network covers around 290 million people across the United States.

In February, AT&T had an outage that disrupted calls and text messages for thousands of U.S. users and prompted federal investigations.



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