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AT&T confirms data breach and resets millions of customer passcodes

Caute_cautim — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:06:04 GMT

Hi All

Whether they are big or small they all fall victim, to attacks, how they cope depends on the maturity of their incident response plans.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/30/24116515/att-data-leak-passcode-reset-cybersecurity-privacy

Regards

Caute_Cautim

Re: AT&T confirms data breach and resets millions of customer passcodes

tmekelburg1 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:43:36 GMT

I like Verizon's method of sending a random passcode via email with a 'yes' or 'no' option on if it's okay for the rep to access your account. While it's not perfect, it's leaps and bounds over storing a customer's passcode that they are more than likely using for other accounts requiring a pin or passcode. Also, most passcodes I've been forced to use are at least 6 digits now. Seems a little behind the times there as well.