Between AT&T, all the follow-on activity from Snowflake, Microsoft Outlook, and more, it’s best to probably just assume at this point that your personal information has somehow been involved in a data breach.
We’re only halfway through 2024, and we’ve already seen some of the largest data breaches and leaks in history. Telecommunications provider AT&T disclosed earlier this month that adversaries stole a cache of data that contained the phone numbers and call records of “nearly all” of its customers, which equates to about 110 million people.
Even if you’ve yet to receive the dreaded boilerplate notification email from any company, it’s probably just best for all of us to assume that some of our personal information has been accessed, leaked or stolen over the past few years, or it’s going to be eventually.
I took this as an opportunity to check for myself. The ever-popular Have I Been Pwned? says my personal email address has been involved in 14 breaches, some dating back to 2017 and one as recently as June.
Thankfully, Trend Micro’s ID Protect says that my personal cell phone hasn’t been involved in any data breaches, but that certainly hasn’t stopped me from getting my fair share of spam texts and phone calls.
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