Techlore Surveillance Report All AT&T Customer Records EXPOSED?!
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Jul 15, 2024 The podcast discusses the massive AT&T data breach exposing customer records, the risks of leaked metadata, data breaches at Evolve Bank and spyware vendor Mspy, Google news updates, cybersecurity concerns, Ghost's federated newsletter, and Bitwarden's mobile app update.
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Massive AT&T Metadata Exposure
- AT&T hackers stole metadata of nearly all cellular customers, exposing who called or texted whom during specific windows in 2022 and early 2023.
- Metadata alone can reconstruct social networks and identify contacts using public lookup tools.
Choose Services That Minimize Collected Data
- Use end-to-end encrypted services that also hide metadata to reduce risk from breaches and legal process access.
- Prefer services that know as little about you as possible so there is nothing to hand over or leak.
Arrested Suspect And Journalistic Risk
- An arrested suspect linked to the breach was an American in Turkey with prior T-Mobile hacking charges, but data sharing scope remains unknown.
- Journalists and investigators face particular risk because metadata can reveal sources and contact networks over months.