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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.~~|FCC~~ 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>

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: ==

==References:==

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 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.|FCC 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>
+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: ==
+==References:==
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