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The U.S. governance has accused Connor Moucka and John Binns of being the hacker who broke into the system of AT&T , steal around 50 billion client call and text record .
In July , AT&T said hackers stole the phone record of “ nearly all ” of its cellular and landline customers , as well as birdsong and text message records — such as who contacted whom by headphone or text — but not the content of the message . At the time , AT&T enounce it would notify around 110 million AT&T customers of the severance and that the phonograph record were stolen from its systems host on Snowflake , a supplier of cloud services for data point analysis .
Until the Department of Justice ’s indictment against the two hackers , which was file on Sunday , the full act of stolen AT&T customer records was nameless .
The document does not mention AT&T. or else , it cite “ Victim-2 , ” describing it as “ a major telecommunications company located in the United States , ” which was breached around April 14 . When AT&T previously confirm it was breach , it aver the company learned of the jade on April 19 . This stand for that both the verbal description of what sort of company Victim-2 is , and the dates of its breach , align with what AT&T had publicly disclosed , making it almost sure that Victim-2 is indeed AT&T.
AT&T did not respond to a postulation for input .
DOJ spokesperson Emily Langlie declined to comment .
Overall , according to the bill of indictment , Moucka and Binns access “ billions of sensitive customer records ” and were successful in extorting at least three victim of at least 36 bitcoin ( around $ 2.5 million when the victims paid ) over the span of almost a class , from around November 2023 to October 10 of this class .
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Prosecutors say Moucka , who lived in Canada , is also bonk online as “ judische , ” “ catist , ” “ waif , ” and “ cllyels , ” and Binns , who lived in Turkey , was know as “ irdev”and “ j_irdev1337.”Moucka was arrested in Canada last calendar week . Binns was antecedently nail in Turkey , agree to 404 medium .
In August , Binnstook credit for the AT&T breachwith The Wall Street Journal . Moucka , through his moniker “ Judische,”told 404 Mediathat he thought he ’d be arrested soon .
AT&T is just one of several dupe who had sensitive data slip from their Snowflake instances . Over the last calendar month , cyberpunk also broke intoSantander Bank , Ticketmaster , andaround 165 other incarnate customer . All these companionship expend Snowflake .
prosecuting attorney allege that by breaking into the dupe companies ’ snow bunting case , the cyberpunk stole troves of raw personal and embodied data point , including societal security numeral , driver ’s permission number , passport telephone number , and banking information , which makes these Snowflake - related breaches some ofthe worst cyberattacks of the year . In some cases , the hackers also postulate victims for a ransom money by threatening them with leak the steal entropy , threats that they followed up on at fourth dimension .
Wired antecedently reportedthat AT&T paid a hack $ 370,000 in an effort to get them to delete the stolen disc . Prosecutors aver in the indictment that Victim-2 paid a ransom to the hacker .
This story has been updated to include DOJ ’s no gossip .
