USA based AT&T says that some of its customer's personal details have been leaked to an outside agency.
In a letter that is being sent to the affected customers, AT&T says that
employees at on of its service providers accessed account information as part of
an effort to request codes from AT&T than are used to unlock AT&T mobile
phones in the secondary mobile phone market.
The number of affected customers is also unknown, although the company has
filed a notice with Californian regulators, which is only needed when more than
500 customers are affected within that State.
The breach took place between the 9th and 21st April this year.
"We recently learned that three employees of one of our vendors accessed
some AT&T customer accounts without proper authorization," the company
said in a statement.
"We have taken steps to help prevent this from happening again, we are
notifying affected customers, and we have reported this matter to law
enforcement," it added.
AT&T is offering a year's worth of free credit reporting to the affected
customers, as the data breach could have included the customer's date of birth
and social security number -- both of which are useful to fraudsters.
The vendor is currently unnamed.
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