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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday April 09 2015, @01:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the Once-more-unto-the-breach dept.

Reuters is reporting on the FCC's settlement with AT&T over data breaches at foreign call centers. From the article:

The Federal Communications Commission reached a $25 million settlement with AT&T Inc over a consumer data breach at call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines, the U.S. communications regulator said on Wednesday.

The breaches led to unauthorized disclosure of names and full or partial Social Security numbers and illegal access to account information of about 280,000 U.S customers of AT&T, a senior FCC official told reporters on a conference call.

The data was used by call center employees to request handset-unlock codes for AT&T phones and shared with third parties who seem to have been trafficking stolen cell phones, the official said. The breaches occurred in 2013 and 2014.

AT&T said in a statement: "We are terminating vendor sites as appropriate. We’ve changed our policies and strengthened our operations."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Max Hyre on Thursday April 09 2015, @10:03PM

    by Max Hyre (3427) <reversethis-{moc.oohay} {ta} {eryhxam}> on Thursday April 09 2015, @10:03PM (#168516)
    The IRS, my employers, and my banks get my Social-Security Number. All others get nada. (And if they insist obnoxiously enough, they get random-number generator output.)
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