Hackers didn't do anything, at&t failed in one of their few roles, security. It's your fault for being so pathetically shit. These companies seriously need major punishments or being jailed for life. I'm beyond sick of them all and they no fucks given bribe everything mentality.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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Hackers in this case likely means someone who can read a url and increment a number and is curious. Which ought to be everyone over the age of about 7.
Congratulations! Everyone is now a hacker!
I trust the hackers more then companies these days. The companies steal everything with immunity
By the people, for the people ✊
Yeah, most effective illegal hackers are working for intelligence agencies or criminal organizations. The legal ones work for companies.
The ones "for the people" are very few.
Governor Mike Parson, Is that you?
“Hello, this is the password inspector”
Companies should be forced to pay thousands of dollars to each customer that gets their data stolen on top of paying for any damages caused by the use of the stolen data. That would put them out of business with a breach this large.
You'll take your check for $3.27 from the class action lawsuit that settled 4 years ago, and you'll be happy
They all get cybersecurity insurance to limit/eliminate that risk and pass it down to someone else. Yeah, we're at a point where companies have accepted it'll happen and pay for fucking cybersecurity insurance to protect their capital instead of spending that money on actual security.
Increasing the liability just means the premiums will be passed down to the users, and insurance companies will be rolling in cash. Not like the users would get the settlements anyway.
And of course there's the whole problem of disposable LLCs, so even a corporate death penalty would do shit, because our society doesn't give a shit about people, only capital.
Needs to be a percentage of revenue earned to eliminate the possibility of passing the buck. So... It's not happening any time soon.
- Someone who has to pay higher rates because PG&E exec pocketed revenue instead of investing in company infrastructure, killing numerous people across multiple incidents.
Company has been laying off people in droves. This stuff will become more common with AT&T.
Change service providers. Sell any stock you might have.
Good thing I ain't got nothing to hide...
I also put a ring door camera on the inside of my bathroom to keep me safe!
Hood thing
!
Ring camera in the bathroom: just a hood thang
bitch, i might be
Which means AT&T customers can expect spam calls/texts to get much worse in the coming weeks. This breach is basically a gigantic list of known good phone numbers, and there are free tools available to link names/emails to phone numbers.
The hackers are AT&T and illegal acts of the US government