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| Name = AT&T | | Name = AT&T | ||
| Type = Public | | Type = Public | ||
| Founded = | | Founded = 1885 | ||
| Industry = Telecommunications | | Industry = Telecommunications | ||
| Official Website = att.com/ | | Official Website = https://att.com/ | ||
| Logo = | | Logo = AT&T.png | ||
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[[wikipedia:AT&T|AT&T, Inc.]] is a major telecommunications holding company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. AT&T owns several smaller telecommunications companies including Cricket Wireless and DIRECTV. <ref>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271718000009/ex21.htm</ref> | [[wikipedia:AT&T|'''AT&T, Inc.''']] is a major telecommunications holding company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. AT&T owns several smaller telecommunications companies, including Cricket Wireless and DIRECTV. <ref>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271718000009/ex21.htm</ref> | ||
In 2017, the Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded AT&T with a 1 out of 5 stars privacy rating, the same as AT&T's largest competitors, Verizon and T-Mobile.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180915003333/https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2017</ref> | In 2017, the Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded AT&T with a 1 out of 5 stars privacy rating, the same as AT&T's largest competitors, Verizon and T-Mobile.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180915003333/https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2017</ref> | ||
== | ==Consumer impact summary== | ||
{| | {{Placeholder box|Overview of concerns that arise from the company's conduct regarding (if applicable): | ||
* User Freedom | |||
* User Privacy | |||
* Business Model | |||
* Market Control}} | |||
==Incidents== | |||
===Selling consumer data (2024)=== | |||
FCC found that all major telecommunications companies were illegally selling customer's location data. IFCC fined AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million, AT&T's share amounted to 0.22% of their net annual income.<ref group="Video References">https://youtube.com/watch?v=mdZt7ox1DDs</ref> | |||
===Massive data breach (March 2024)=== | |||
In March 2024, tens of millions of records allegedly breached from AT&T were posted to a popular hacking forum<ref>https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-alleged-att-data-breach</ref>. Dating back to August 2021, the data was originally posted for sale before later being freely released. At the time, AT&T maintained that there had not been a breach of their systems and that the data originated from elsewhere. 12 days later, AT&T acknowledged that data fields specific to them were in the breach and that it was not yet known whether the breach occurred at their end or that of a vendor<ref>https://about.att.com/story/2024/addressing-data-set-released-on-dark-web.html</ref>. AT&T also proceeded to reset customer account passcodes<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/att-reset-account-passcodes-customer-data/</ref>, an indicator that there was sufficient belief passcodes had been compromised. The incident exposed names, email and physical addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and US social security numbers. | |||
==Products== | |||
{{Placeholder box|This is a list of the company's product lines '''with articles on this wiki'''. | |||
* [[Example product line one]] (release date): Short summary of the product's incidents. | |||
* [[Example product line two]] (release date):}} | |||
==See also== | |||
| | {{Placeholder box|Link to relevant theme articles or companies with similar incidents.}} | ||
|} | |||
==References:== | |||
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[[Category:AT&T]] | |||