AT&T fined $25M over data theft in Colombia, other countries
AT&T fined $25M over data theft in Colombia, other countries
Apr 10, 2015 posted by Reuters
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 US 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 US 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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