What to know about AT&T's massive data breach 

Lol! 😂 As if the FCC is out to protect the general public. Now THAT is rich.

WHY DID AT&T not come out with the truth of all the data breach? I thought there was a federal law that stated buisness were supposed to come out with this information ASAP. Not 2 weeks later.

I agree, we need to do class action

You mean 4 years later.

Sue Sue Sue!!!!!

True. Also there should be a law regarding holding your ss for a long period of time.

I had ATT years ago and never gave them my ss number. Never was asked for it. Wouldn't have given it if they HAD asked. They sent the bill, I paid the bill. No ss number required.

yes we can

And you can, and you might win, and everyone involved (meaning all the customers who did not respond to the lawsuit postcard) will be mailed a $2.47 check in the mail, in 5-7 years after you finally get the company to settle for their mistake.

​@FriendofMineralTown that's about right

@@FriendofMineralTownRight and those penny on the dollars class action checks is some straight up BS.

​@@FriendofMineralTown I'd only think it's worth it if it's at least 2.50

Dying 😅

Lmao. Mine too with maybe $2 in my acct.

Good Advice.

They spend lots of money" upgrading" but have lousy internet security. It's an insider scam.

If you ain't rich, you ain't sheet. That's just how society rolls.

Yeah, it's crazy. It's almost like when you punish people for making stupid decisions, they tend to stop making them...

They sell your data, including locational data. There should be an option for the user to opt out of their data retention and if not done, they should be liable for any expenditures.

security tends to be an afterthought...well until stuffs like this happens. At the end of the day, profitability drives funding.

I was about to post the same thing. Don't _"consider"_ doing a credit freeze and instead just do it! It's free across all three credit bureaus.

I still have my original Social Security card that was issues to me in 1964. In big bold print along the bottom of the card is clearly reads "Not To Be Used For Identification". I have no idea why they dropped that. Now its commonly used as an ID and our ssn links us to everything.

The problem is: The U.S. government ITSELF really started the problem the moment they started using the SSN as our personal taxpayer IDs on official IRS forms, which in turn led to companies having to collect their employee SSNs for things like tax withholding purposes. Banks also legally have to collect SSNs for things like interest income reporting. Things only grew from there over the years and decades as the need for a personal UUID grew-for example, with credit reporting agencies, etc., and thus the SSN gradually became the de-facto go-to standard, since it was the closest thing to an individual UUID that they already had, almost like the path of least resistance, and things like HSM and PKI hadn’t been invented yet. In many places, one can make up their own number instead of using their SSN, but the trouble is: In the absence of an explicit policy being stated upfront, how does one know for sure when they do and don’t have to use their SSN? In theory, what you propose could work, but you CANNOT just propose, adopt, and then implement such an enormous policy shift like this overnight, and there are BOUND to be disagreements about who’s to pay for this massive shift, be it government (meaning us, the taxpayers), business (meaning all of their customers), or a combination thereof, and HOW they’ll all pay for it. In a democracy, you CANNOT simply declare “Big business / Government/ People should pay for it,” and expect that to be the end of it. That only works in a dictatorship like Russia or China.

That would work if it wasn't an insider scam.

Those pesky auto workers unions.......

Lol

buy more china made tech / apps. china data.

When the put the CEO in prison for it.

$1.60 check for you, millions for all the lawyers. Unfortunately this doesn't benefit the victims, wish the govt could fix that too.

What else can you use? All telecommunications companies have been hacked.

It's spelled "CINGULAR"

I Think it was Mozambique

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