{"id":7877,"date":"2024-07-15T07:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2024-07-15T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:22:32","slug":"att-reportedly-gave-370000-to-a-hacker-to-delete-its-stolen-customer-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/att-reportedly-gave-370000-to-a-hacker-to-delete-its-stolen-customer-data\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T Reportedly Gave $370,000 to a Hacker to Delete Its Stolen Customer Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lot of cover stories for the AT&T hack today including this gem where they negotiated and paid a hacker to delete the data stolen. Yeah, like you can trust a hacker to delete the data. You’d have to think the AT&T advertising spending with these publications has increased greatly. Consequently, you’d also have to wonder if a lot of these hacking incidents circle back to the WEF and their fearmongering of cyber attacks disrupting society, which of course we are quite sure they’d perpetrate as a psyop on society to push digital ID and coming social credit system. My previous post<\/a> on the AT&T hack had additional information on protecting your credit history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/14\/24198294\/att-paid-370000-ransom-hacked-customer-data-deleted-may<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The company negotiated through an intermediary security researcher, according to Wired.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Wes Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AT&T paid a hacker about $370,000 to delete customer data that was stolen from it<\/a> as part of a hacking spree earlier this year. The hacker then provided a video to prove they had deleted the data, according to a Wired<\/em> report<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AT&T reportedly negotiated through an intermediary, called Reddington, acting on behalf of a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group. The hacker originally asked for $1 million before AT&T talked them down to the amount, which it paid on May 17th in bitcoin, Wired<\/em> writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outlet reports that Reddington, whom AT&T paid for his part in negotiations, said he believes the only complete copy of the data had been deleted after AT&T paid the ransom, but that it\u2019s possible excerpts are still in the wild. Reddington also reportedly said he negotiated with several other companies for the hackers, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before AT&T announced the breach, it was reported that Ticketmaster and Santander Bank<\/a> were also compromised, via the stolen login credentials of an employee of third-party cloud storage company Snowflake. Wired <\/em>reports that, after the Ticketmaster attack, hackers used a script to hack potentially more than 160<\/a> companies simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of cover stories for the AT&T hack today including this gem where they negotiated and paid a hacker to delete the data stolen. Yeah, like you can trust a hacker to delete the data. You’d have to think the AT&T advertising spending with these publications has increased greatly. Consequently, you’d also have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}