Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia is inquiring about AT&T's incident response and offering fraud monitoring following the data breach, expressing concerns about national security threats from stolen call records and personally identifying information.
The stolen data, which includes call records and text message exchanges, could be exploited by foreign adversaries like the Russian Kremlin and Chinese Communist Party to trace phone numbers back to owners and potentially exploit sensitive communications networks.
The breach compromised nearly all AT&T customers' cellular and landline phone numbers, call and text message records from May to October 2022, though specific call and text contents were not included, leading to at least one arrest related to the incident.
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