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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So this was pretty old and customers got notified by AT&T that it was a 3rd party vendor they were selling data to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Okay, so it’s either:

  • incompetence (getting breached); or
  • malice (selling your data)

They might have been better off claiming incompetence. OTOH, we already know AT&T is malicious from project Fairview, so perhaps in the end it’s better for PR to just stay in the malicious lane and not be regarded as both malicious and incompetent.