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AT&T says hackers accessed records of calls and texts for nearly all its cellular customers (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Which means AT&T customers can expect spam calls/texts to get much worse in the coming weeks. This breach is basically a gigantic list of known good phone numbers, and there are free tools available to link names/emails to phone numbers.