AT&T stated it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of consumers concerning the theft of private knowledge not too long ago found on-line.

The telecommunications large stated Saturday {that a} dataset discovered on the “darkish internet” incorporates info corresponding to Social Safety numbers for about 7.6 million present AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account holders.

The corporate stated it has already reset the passcodes of present customers and will probably be speaking with account holders whose delicate private info was compromised.

It’s not identified if the info “originated from AT&T or one among its distributors,” the corporate stated in an announcement. The compromised knowledge is from 2019 or earlier and doesn’t seem to incorporate monetary info or name historical past, it stated. Along with passcodes and Social Safety numbers, it could embrace e mail and mailing addresses, cellphone numbers and delivery dates.

It’s not the primary disaster this yr for the Dallas-based firm. 

New York prosecutors stated they’re opening an investigation right into a wi-fi community outage in February that left 1000’s of AT&T clients throughout the U.S. with out cellphone service for roughly 12 hours.

The outage, which additionally affected some Shopper Mobile, T-Cell, UScellular and Verizon subscribers, led to widespread frustration by cellphone customers and briefly disrupted 911 service in some communities. 

AT&T apologized for the community disruption and provided a $5 credit score to clients.