Telecommunications giant AT&T says cybercriminals have stolen phone records belonging to “nearly all” of its customers. The compromised data includes millions of phone numbers, calling and text records, and information revealing its customers’ locations.
AT&T revealed on Tuesday that a “nationwide issue” that had affected many AT&T customers’ ability to make calls to other cell phone carriers has been “resolved.”
Following a massive data breach exposing the records of over 73 million current and former customers, AT&T has reset the account passcodes for millions of affected users.
Cell carrier AT&T is planning to give a $5.00 compensation to customers who lost service for hours during last week’s network outage.
A major AT&T network outage that affected tens of thousands of customers nationwide on Thursday was not the result of a cyberattack, the company said.
A massive AT&T network outage left many thousands of customers across the U.S. without cell service or internet access Thursday morning. Lesser outages in the Verizon and T-Mobile cell networks have also been widely reported.
A secretive surveillance initiative, managed by the White House, grants law enforcement agencies unprecedented access to trillions of American phone records, raising significant privacy and legal concerns.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, wrote that the White House National Drug Control Policy’s secret funding of a surveillance program proves that surveillance reform must go far beyond Section 702 of FISA.
Ten state financial officers sent a letter to AT&T’s Board of Directors, first seen by Breitbart News, claiming the company may be violating its fiduciary duty to its shareholders by discriminating against conservative news outlets.
Nearly two dozen key Jewish community leaders from across the United States, representing millions of Jewish Americans, called for global telecommunications giant AT&T to “reconsider” its recent move to cancel Newsmax from its network lineup, citing the conservative news channel’s “fair coverage of Jewish issues and Israel,” while warning of the risk of losing “significant support from the Jewish community” as a result.
Republican senators and members of congress, along with former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are taking AT&T’s DirecTV platform to task for kicking off the conservative news channel Newsmax.
DirecTV, the video programming platform owned by AT&T, suspended service to Newsmax today, cutting the conservative cable channel off from millions of American households. Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax, blasted the decision as a “blatant act of political discrimination and censorship.”
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) says he anticipates that House Republicans will launch an investigation of how Democrat political pressure influenced AT&T and Verizon to blacklist One America News Network (OAN) in the new Congress.
There is growing support among House Republicans for a congressional review of Democratic pressure tactics to suppress speech, from the Democratic Senator’s attempt to shut down Twitter to investigating the role of the Democratic Congress in AT&T and Verizon’s cancellation of One America News (OAN).
State Treasurer of Nebraska John Murante (R), joined by the Republican State Treasurers of Louisiana, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming, has delivered a warning shot to AT&T, sending a letter to the telecom giant demanding answers regarding its blacklisting of the One America News (OAN) network.
Comedian-actress Milana Vayntrub, who is known to millions of TV viewers for playing cheerful saleswoman “Lily” in AT&T’s ubiquitous wireless commercials, has penned a personal essay in which she expresses gratitude for abortion, describing her own experience terminating her unwanted child as “no big deal.”
Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania reportedly fired an employee after he raised concerns with the company’s “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” (DEI) initiative.
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T will combine its massive media operations that include CNN HBO, TNT and TBS in a $43 billion deal with Discovery, the owner of lifestyle networks including the Food Network and HGTV.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile temporarily shut down President Donald Trump’s campaign texting program, which serves as a cornerstone of the president’s digital platform.
Democrat lawmakers attacked AT&T for allegedly giving “preferential treatment” to certain streaming services, continuing a pattern of attacks on alleged internet filtering by telecoms companies while ignoring the “preferential treatment” afforded to certain types of content by big tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and others.
The United States Senate released a report on Tuesday that revealed that the government failed to properly oversee Chinese-owned telecommunication companies over the past two decades.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has denied supporting notorious Chinese tech giant Huawei after his social media post appeared to praise the company in comparison to its American competitor, AT&T.
The Duke Energy company said it would not disconnect its customers’ power over nonpayment during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Internet service provider AT&T has reportedly suspended all broadband usage caps as millions of Americans prepare to work from home or self-quarantine to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is launching a new internet-delivered TV service Monday as it struggles with a shrinking DirecTV satellite business.
With another 6 million lost subscribers in 2019, customers are still fleeing traditional cable and satellite networks in droves.
CNN is in defiance of a federal judge’s order to respond to a defamation lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) over a completely false story the network printed about the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) ranking member late last year.
Multinational corporation AT&T is reportedly laying off thousands of American workers after forcing them to train their foreign replacements who have been imported through the H-1B visa program.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said Wednesday that House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) violated his civil liberties by snooping in his phone records and publishing them in his impeachment report.
AT&T lost a staggering 1.4 million pay TV customers in the third quarter as the company’s poorly performing DirecTV unit weighed down its financial results and the cord-cutting trend continued to ravage the industry.
AT&T is expecting to lose over 1 million TV subscribers in the third quarter of this year, amid increased competition from online streaming services. Meanwhile, AT&T’s shareholders are telling the company that buying DirecTV was a big mistake.
President Donald Trump declared CNN bad for the United States of America on Monday, pointing to “fake news” and bad ratings.
T-Mobile and Sprint pledged to build a 5G network covering 97% of the U.S. population in three years.
NEW YORK (AP) — A business dispute took CBS off the air for millions of satellite television customers of DirecTV and AT&T U-verse on Saturday.
Telecommunications giant AT&T has announced plans to automatically block fraudulent “robocalls” for new phone customers in the coming months.
Trump, tweeting from London, said AT&T would make changes to CNN’s program if “people stopped using or subscribing to AT&T.”
Twitter removed a video montage previewing the 2020 election shared by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, due to a copyright complaint from Warner Brothers.
The AT&T chief had an impromtu meeting with President Donald Trump last week. 5G network technology was discussed.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson raked in a more than $29 million salary last year while nearly 12,000 American workers at the telecom multinational corporation have been laid off since the 2017 tax cut.
Appearing at SXSW on Saturday, CNN president Jeff Zucker accused President Donald Trump of instigating a Justice Department lawsuit to block AT&T’s mega-merger with parent company Time Warner.
