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AT&T Breached, Exposes 19,000 Identities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somewhat-worse-than-a-laptop dept.

mytrip writes to tell us News.com is reporting that a recent attack on AT&T's systems saw thousands of customers' personal data compromised. About 19,000 customers of AT&T's online store who purchased equipment for a DSL connection were affected. From the article: "AT&T is offering to pay for credit monitoring services for customers whose accounts have been impacted because they could be at risk of identity fraud. The company also has made available a toll-free number to affected customers to call for more information."

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  1. Perhaps an appropriate punishment by Bromskloss · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for using AT&T.

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  2. Re:not my fault... by legoburner · · Score: 4, Funny
    no wonder i have shitty credit... ppl keep stealing my identity... how do i start a new credit report?

    Steal someone's identity.
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  3. Re:"...customers were effected" by Pointdexter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it's not like the editors couldn't of fixed that.

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  4. Re:"...customers were effected" by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1, Funny

    >>>were effected
    >>Yes, we know. Grammar here's defected.
    >>Yeah, it's not like the editors couldn't of fixed that.
    >The editors could care less about grammar. Nor idiom.

    AIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!<head explodes>

    (It's 5:30 A.M. here - what a way to start the day!)

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  5. Re:Look, shit happens to the best of us. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes... yes I do.

    Yesterday's pizza was late, I was so fucking hungry I wanted to kill the guy.

  6. Re:Oi! Hie Thee to Strunk and White! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    1. "Suggest," not "suggests."
    2. "Who," not "that."
    3. Quotation marks are necessary to indicate the treatment of words as text.
    4. Omission of the ampersand in AT&T's name is neglectful at best.
    5. Use italics, not quotation marks, for book titles; also, the comma is not a substitute for a genitive ending.
    6. Finally, as others have noted, the subject you seek is "English."
    I sympathize with your cause, but the effort above is unacceptable. Shape up or ship out of the Grammar Reich, soldier.