Skip to main content
Data breach

AT&T

49 102 176 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2021-08-20.

Breached2021-08-20Added to HIBP2024-03-19 UTCUpdated by HIBP2024-03-31 UTCAccounts49 102 176Domain—
Verified

What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words

In March 2024, tens of millions of records allegedly breached from AT&T were posted to a popular hacking forum. Dating back to August 2021, the data was originally posted for sale before later being freely released. At the time, AT&T maintained that there had not been a breach of their systems and that the data originated from elsewhere. 12 days later, AT&T acknowledged that data fields specific to them were in the breach and that it was not yet known whether the breach occurred at their end or that of a vendor. AT&T also proceeded to reset customer account passcodes, an indicator that there was sufficient belief passcodes had been compromised. The incident exposed names, email and physical addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and US social security numbers.

Exposed data as HIBP classifies it

  • Dates of birth
  • Email addresses
  • Government issued IDs
  • Names
  • Phone numbers
  • Physical addresses

How HIBP qualifies it

  • HIBP verified that the data came from this service.

HIBP names no domain for this breach.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC