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all right but we are going to start off
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with that big data breach that we're
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learning about today from AT&T a really
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tough reminder that our data is out
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there and just one hack away from being
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exposed consumer investigator Hank
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Winchester with everything we need to
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know about the breach and AT&T says that
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they've known about this since
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April yeah that's when they first uh
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made the FCC aware of the breach but now
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of course us the consumers were just
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learning about all the information we're
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here in front of the AT&T store in
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Southfield we've seen customers going in
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and out and you have to assume some of
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them asking about this breach let me
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break it all down for you and share some
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of the information that we know right
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now uh this right now this hack it it
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impacts almost every AT&T customer if
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you have AT&T service either landline or
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your home phone we're talking about 98%
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of the customers it is one of the
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largest data breaches for a
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Communications company in history and
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we're talking about data that was
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gathered from May 1st 2022 to October
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31st Halloween 22 of that year now what
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it involves it involves call and text
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records not the text messages themselves
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but the records the numbers that were
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dialed uh your social security number
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your credit card information that is not
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part of the leak a lot of questions with
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this one chrisy number one why is it
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taking so long for the consumers to be
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made aware of it right now and also are
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people able to figure out the exact
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phone numbers that were dialed it would
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take a little digging on the part of the
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consumer uh but it's c certainly
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wouldn't be hard for them or for the
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hackers to figure out and connect you
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with that particular number again the
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most important thing it doesn't sound
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like the text message info uh itself is
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part of the hack Social Security numbers
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or private information like that but
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again this is a lot of information this
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is something that is a big concern
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obviously for the consumer for AT&T and
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the FCC as the investigation to this one
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kind of just begins right now back to
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you anything that um that we can do as
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customers I know sometimes you're just
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kind of waiting and watching your credit
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report or just making sure that you know
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your information hasn't been used in any
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way yeah I mean surprisingly it doesn't
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sound like credit card and Social
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Security information was part of this
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breach but I think the number one most
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important thing anybody can do at any
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time is lock your own credit you can do
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it for free you can contact the three
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credit reporting agencies and put a
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request in and then simply if you're
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buying a car getting a home loan and you
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need your credit pulled you just use the
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number and you unlock it for a certain
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amount of time it really does help
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protect you the consumer it's something
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that we should all do yeah I know you're
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going to be working on this uh
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throughout the day and we'll have more
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on local for news at 5:00 today all
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right Hank Winchester thanks so much for
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being with me on this one today again we
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are all just one hack away from our
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information being out of there
