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you know this is a big deal when it
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comes to AT&T as we were talking about
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hackers stealing almost everyone's AT&T
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phone records if you were a customer
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back for a six-month period of 2022 now
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after data breach like this you don't
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know exactly what that means for you but
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you need to be on guard and protect
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yourself now that you know your
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information is in the wrong
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hands AT&T customers on guard now that
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six months of phone records are in the
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wrong hands the company just filed with
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the SEC the data from nearly all of its
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customers was downloaded to a
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third-party platform the compromised
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data includes records of their customers
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telephone numbers along with the calls
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and texts Cassandra happy with wallet
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Hub says just phone numbers give
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scammers enough information to do damage
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that really gives frauders an opening to
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potentially Target you as far as
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spoofing and impersonating other people
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to try to get information from Meo happy
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say Gamers can easily link your phone
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number to get more information about you
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often times your phone number is tied to
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other more public records that could be
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found and Link that number to your name
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which kind of opens up the door there
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for more potential for fraud and scam
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besides AT&T Advanced Auto Parts and
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Ticket Master also recently announced
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data breaches Advance Auto Parts is
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facing a lawsuit here in North Carolina
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alleging it failed to protect the
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private information of its employees and
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customers after data breach in April
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earlier this month Ticket Master
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revealed hackers got access to customers
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personal information and is now
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informing customers impacted they
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qualify for years worth of identity
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monitoring a service happy says you
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should take advantage of it's best to
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sign up for credit monitoring and go and
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reset all your passwords and pins just
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to make sure it's fresh and clean and
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compromised also monitor your account
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for unusual activity the includes
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monitoring your bank and credit card
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accounts and Report any suspicious
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activity right away and you know when
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someone does get their social media
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account hacked they're always like
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wonder how it happened I'm like listen
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everyone's information has been hacked
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at some point with a data breach so
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constantly change those passwords your
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login information to protect yourself
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and on the AT&T thing they said that uh
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who you called and who you texted is
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part of this data breach but not your
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exact text messages so you don't have to
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worry about that okay there's some PR
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they say yeah okay I am skeptical all
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right Diane got quiet they all right
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more to come on that Diane thank you
