According to a letter posted on the website of
the Attorney General of Vermont on Oct. 1, the company said the
person may have obtained Social Security numbers, driver’s
license numbers and AT&T services customers subscribed to.
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Federal authorities have been notified regarding the incident,
and the employee has since been fired, the carrier said.
"Unfortunately, we recently learned that one of our employees
did not follow our strict privacy rules and inappropriately
obtained some customer information. This individual no longer
works at AT&T and we are directly contacting the limited number
of affected customers,” an AT&T spokesman said.
The news follows breaches that include a massive cyberattack at
JPMorgan Chase & Co, a theft involving Apple Inc's iCloud and an
alleged international computer hacking ring charged with
stealing more than $100 million worth of software and data -
some of it used to train military pilots and some related to
Microsoft Corp's Xbox.
(Reporting by Natalie Grover and Narottam Medhora in Bangalore;
Editing by Ken Wills)
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