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.

This leak has cleaned up that data to remove internal AT&T information and added the unencrypted Social Security numbers and dates of birth to each customer record.

AT&T customers may be eligible for a portion of a $177 million settlement due to two data breaches.

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being ...

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A hacker who stole sensitive student and teacher data didn’t destroy it after getting a ransom from PowerSchool and is now asking for money from schools.

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It’ll depend on the temperament of this particular hacker, but if PowerSchool’s money wasn’t enough, a bunch of public schools won’t be able to afford silence, either.

A threat actor has re-released data from a 2021 AT&T breach affecting 70 million customers, this time combining previously separate files to directly link Social Security numbers and birth dates ...

California-based Berkeley Research Group says it paid hackers a ransom to delete data involving abuse survivors after a security breach.

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On a call with customers in January, PowerSchool said it paid a ransom to the hacker and then watched a video of the hacker deleting the data, people who were on the call told WRAL News.