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17,000 AT&T workers from the CWA union went on strike Friday.
NPR notes the strike affects workers in nine states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. A North Carolina newspaper… Continue reading As 17,000 AT&T Workers Strike, Some Customers Experience ‘Prolonged’ Outages
“AT&T has been told to stop running ads that claim the carrier is already offering cellular coverage from space,” reports Ars Technica:
AT&T intends to offer Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) and has a deal with AST SpaceMobile, a Starli… Continue reading AT&T Rebuked Over ‘Misleading’ Ad Showing Satellite Phone Calling It Doesn’t Offer Yet
AT&T’s February wireless outage disrupted over 92 million voice calls and hindered more than 25,000 attempts to reach emergency services, an FCC report said. The 12-hour nationwide incident affected approximately 125 million devices, including thos… Continue reading AT&T Outage Blocked 92 Million Calls, FCC Report Reveals
We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of many audacious feats attempted and accomplished in the 20th century. …read more Continue reading How the Bell System Was Built
Two of the nation’s major telecommunications companies are feuding over a plan to boost service for police, firefighters and other state and local agencies — a move Verizon says would amount to a $14 billion gift to rival. From a report: AT&T and … Continue reading AT&T, Verizon Tangle Over 5G Service for Emergency Responders
The massive AT&T breach has been linked to an American hacker living in Turkey and reports say the telecom giant paid a $370,000 ransom.
The post AT&T Breach Linked to American Hacker, Telecom Giant Paid $370k Ransom: Reports appeared first o… Continue reading AT&T Breach Linked to American Hacker, Telecom Giant Paid $370k Ransom: Reports
AT&T paid more than $300,000 to a member of the team that stole call records for tens of millions of customers, reports Wired — “to delete the data and provide a video demonstrating proof of deletion.”
The hacker, who is part of the notorio… Continue reading AT&T Paid $370,000 For the Deletion of Stolen Phone Call Records
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: John Binns, a U.S. citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey, is linked to the massive data breach of metadata belonging to nearly all of AT&T’s customers that the telecommunications giant annou… Continue reading American Hacker In Turkey Linked To Massive AT&T Breach
Businesses and individuals with AT&T accounts from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022 and on January 2, 2023 will be notified if their data was affected. Continue reading Massive AT&T Hack Exposed ‘Nearly All’ Customer Phone Numbers
AT&T confirms a data breach exposing call and text records for “Nearly All” customers from May 2022 to… Continue reading AT&T Data Breach: Hackers Steal Call and Text Records for “Nearly All” Customers