A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset of call and text records of “nearly all” AT&T customers has been wiped—but some risks may remain.
Pay wall
Submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.wired.com/story/atandt-paid-hacker-300000-to-delete-stolen-call-records/
A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset of call and text records of “nearly all” AT&T customers has been wiped—but some risks may remain.
Pay wall
No paywall on my end. But here you go archive.ph/TpaaE
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
There is no way to prove that every copy of the stolen data was actually destroyed. I bet the data will show up for sale at some point.