SITUATION: An OWL-SF Member recently received notification that her personal information was included in a huge breach of data by AT&T.
In March, 2024 an AT&T data breach exposed data from 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former account holders on the dark web. The data leaked online includes personal information such as email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, social security numbers (SSNs), AT&T account numbers and passcodes. Fraudsters can use information exposed in this breach to commit synthetic identity theft.
IMMEDIATE ACTION—do this NOW:
- Click HERE to place a Fraud Alert on Equifax. This will be free of charge if you make sure to mention you are doing it in response to the AT&Tdata breach.
- Click HERE to notify the Office of Inspector General of the Social Security Administration; or call (800) 269-0271.
- Click HERE to contact the Federal Trade Commission to report the breach and start a recovery plan.
AND: Send this information to your friends everywhere. 73 million is a lot of people.