Snowflake hackers identified and charged with stealing 50 billion AT&T records
The U.S. Department of justice indicted two hackers for breaking into the systems of AT&T and several other companies.
The U.S. government has accused Connor Moucka and John Binns of being the hackers who broke into the systems of AT&T, stealing around 50 billion customer call and text records.
what exactly do they plan on doing with 50 billion AT&t records😳
Selling them to OpenAI for AI training. LOL
oh oh oh, I never considered it. All this while when it came to data I thought selling to other businesses for ads but now people can sell to AI companies 🤦 this is massive heist of the century that much data would be Worth millions
Data is the new oil. The difference is that on something like Leo, we can create our own oil fields.
That's a powerful point man. Which means Elon has no problem with training his xAI and neither will Mark Zuckerberg but I think after OpenAI brings search, the search queries and interaction could create data
In July, AT&T said hackers stole the phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers, as well as calls and text message records — such as who contacted whom by phone or text — but not the content of the messages. At the time, AT&T said it would notify around 110 million AT&T customers of the breach, and that the records were stolen from its systems hosted on Snowflake, a provider of cloud services for data analysis.
Until the Department of Justice’s indictment against the two hackers, which was filed on Sunday, the total number of stolen AT&T customer records was unknown.
The document does not mention AT&T. Instead, it mentions “Victim-2,” describing it as “a major telecommunications company located in the United States,” which was breached around April 14. When AT&T previously confirmed it was breached, it said the company learned of the hack on April 19. This means that both the description of what kind of company Victim-2 is, and the dates of its breach, align with what AT&T had publicly disclosed, making it almost certain that Victim-2 is indeed AT&T.
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that's a lot of access and if they're able to get details of customer finance or anything related to their wallets, it's disastrous