Current and former AT&T customers may be eligible for a payout from a $177 million settlement connected to two data breaches.. A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on June 20 to the ...

The company reportedly paid a hacker associated with ShinyHunters $373,000 in Bitcoin to remove the stolen data and provide proof that it was deleted, according to Wired.

You may like 61 million Verizon records reportedly for sale — including date of birth, tax ID and phone numbers; AT&T users may be eligible for $177 million data breach payments — what you ...

Prosecutors identified two hackers behind a massive AT&T data breach. ... In the aftermath, AT&T reportedly paid a ransom of $370,000 to secure the deletion of stolen records.

You may like New AT&T data leak links previously exposed info to Social Security numbers, birth dates; CA jury finds against Google in idle cellular data case — and it’s being fined $314 million ...

Crime does pay. It’s the motivator behind ransomware and extortion scams and why the PowerSchool breach (in which data for millions of students was lost to a hacker) is now dragging out further.

Although the stolen AT&T data isn’t public (and one report suggests AT&T paid a ransom for the hackers to delete the stolen data) and the data itself does not contain the contents of calls or ...

A hacker who stole data about students and teachers from the international PowerSchool database was paid a ransom to destroy the data. Now schools are facing extortion threats. Dreamstime/TNS TNS ...

As disclosed in its incident summary, PowerSchool already paid the attacker to delete the data, in an attempt to minimize the damage of its December security breach.But in these recent ...