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ppSeveral federal agencies are being questioned about when they were informed of the ATT phone records data breach and what measures they are taking to shore up cybersecurityppFollowing a massive ATT data breach that resulted in the theft of tens of millions of customers phone and text messaging history a US Senator has sent a request for more information about how the breach occurred and when federal agencies learned about the problems suggesting that cyberattack could represent a threat to national securityppSenator Chuck Grassley of Iowa issued a press release on August 5 announcing he has sent letters to ATT and 17 federal agencies demanding they turn over records related to the most recently reported data breach which impacted about 100 million customers He called for a response from ATT and the affected agencies by later this monthppThe ATT phone records data breach was revealed last month in a report to the Securities and Exchange Commission followed by a press release to customers detailing the telecom giants ongoing investigation into the hack which apparently occurred several years agoppATT indicates that the data included phone call and text message records involving nearly all ATT cellular customers from May 1 2022 to October 31 2022 and again on January 2 2023ppAlthough the company maintains that the data has not been publicly released or sold on the Dark Web cybersecurity experts warn the breach could pose a serious risk for consumersppThis is the second major ATT data breach announced in recent months The earlier reported hack conducted by an online group known as ShinyHunters led to more than 70 million customers personal identifying information PII being leaked on the Dark Web including names email addresses social security numbers and other datappA growing number individuals have filed ATT data breach lawsuits over the earlier ShinyHunters incident raising allegations that the company knew about the leaked data for years and failed to notify customers exposing them to an increased risk of financial fraudppATT Data Breach LawsuitppLawyers are reviewing lawsuits for individuals who had their personal information stolen due to the ATT data breach ppAccording to the press release Senator Grassley the Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Budget Committee sent letters on August 2 to ATT and the following federal agenciesppThe letter to ATTs CEO John Stankey called on the company to explain how the data breach happened and what ATT is doing to prevent future data breachesppGrassley urged the company to answer numerous questions by August 16 including how the data breach was discovered when the company notified federal authorities and how many agencies were impacted He also asked similar questions of US agencies seeking information on their awareness of the breach and their communications with ATT as well as what measures they are taking to secure their data following the breachesppBad actors accessed 90 million Americans data which potentially included federal agencies communications patterns Thats a significant national security threat waiting in the wings Senator Grassley wrote Congress ought to know exactly what outstanding vulnerabilities were dealing with as well as how ATT and the executive branch are actively mitigating future risksppAffected customers have filed a growing number of ATT data breach lawsuits since the incidents were announced including both individual and class action claimsppFollowing the first leak the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation JPML established consolidated pretrial proceedings for all ATT data breach lawsuits filed over that security failure centralizing claims brought throughout the federal court system before US District Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas for coordinated discovery and pretrial proceedingsppHowever several plaintiffs petitioned the JPML last month to establish a separate ATT phone records data breach MDL which involves a completely different security failure and may be centralized before a different judge in a different venueppIt is expected that the JPML will consider oral arguments over the motion during an upcoming hearing scheduled for September 26 2024 in Nashville Tennesseepp072524pp050724pp080624pp0 CommentsppppNOTE Providing information for review by an attorney does not form an attorneyclient relationshipppΔdocumentgetElementById akjs1 setAttribute value new Date getTime ppA Trulicity lawsuit seeks damages for a Pennsylvania man who suffered severe ileus intestinal obstruction nausea and other adverse side effects from the diabetes drugppA federal judge has appointed five attorneys to serve on a Suboxone Leadership Development Committee with the goal of using the mass tort to provide experience to younger attorneys on how to navigate a multidistrict litigationppA group of plaintiffs have asked the JPML to consolidate all AngioDynamics port catheter lawsuits before one judge for coordinated 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ppSeveral federal agencies are being questioned about when they were informed of the ATT phone records data breach and what measures they are taking to shore up cybersecurityppFollowing a massive ATT data breach that resulted in the theft of tens of millions of customers phone and text messaging history a US Senator has sent a request for more information about how the breach occurred and when federal agencies learned about the problems suggesting that cyberattack could represent a threat to national securityppSenator Chuck Grassley of Iowa issued a press release on August 5 announcing he has sent letters to ATT and 17 federal agencies demanding they turn over records related to the most recently reported data breach which impacted about 100 million customers He called for a response from ATT and the affected agencies by later this monthppThe ATT phone records data breach was revealed last month in a report to the Securities and Exchange Commission followed by a press release to customers detailing the telecom giants ongoing investigation into the hack which apparently occurred several years agoppATT indicates that the data included phone call and text message records involving nearly all ATT cellular customers from May 1 2022 to October 31 2022 and again on January 2 2023ppAlthough the company maintains that the data has not been publicly released or sold on the Dark Web cybersecurity experts warn the breach could pose a serious risk for consumersppThis is the second major ATT data breach announced in recent months The earlier reported hack conducted by an online group known as ShinyHunters led to more than 70 million customers personal identifying information PII being leaked on the Dark Web including names email addresses social security numbers and other datappA growing number individuals have filed ATT data breach lawsuits over the earlier ShinyHunters incident raising allegations that the company knew about the leaked data for years and failed to notify customers exposing them to an increased risk of financial fraudppATT Data Breach LawsuitppLawyers are reviewing lawsuits for individuals who had their personal information stolen due to the ATT data breach ppAccording to the press release Senator Grassley the Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Budget Committee sent letters on August 2 to ATT and the following federal agenciesppThe letter to ATTs CEO John Stankey called on the company to explain how the data breach happened and what ATT is doing to prevent future data breachesppGrassley urged the company to answer numerous questions by August 16 including how the data breach was discovered when the company notified federal authorities and how many agencies were impacted He also asked similar questions of US agencies seeking information on their awareness of the breach and their communications with ATT as well as what measures they are taking to secure their data following the breachesppBad actors accessed 90 million Americans data which potentially included federal agencies communications patterns Thats a significant national security threat waiting in the wings Senator Grassley wrote Congress ought to know exactly what outstanding vulnerabilities were dealing with as well as how ATT and the executive branch are actively mitigating future risksppAffected customers have filed a growing number of ATT data breach lawsuits since the incidents were announced including both individual and class action claimsppFollowing the first leak the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation JPML established consolidated pretrial proceedings for all ATT data breach lawsuits filed over that security failure centralizing claims brought throughout the federal court system before US District Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas for coordinated discovery and pretrial proceedingsppHowever several plaintiffs petitioned the JPML last month to establish a separate ATT phone records data breach MDL which involves a completely different security failure and may be centralized before a different judge in a different venueppIt is expected that the JPML will consider oral arguments over the motion during an upcoming hearing scheduled for September 26 2024 in Nashville Tennesseepp072524pp050724pp080624pp0 CommentsppppNOTE Providing information for review by an attorney does not form an attorneyclient relationshipppΔdocumentgetElementById akjs1 setAttribute value new Date getTime ppA Trulicity lawsuit seeks damages for a Pennsylvania man who suffered severe ileus intestinal obstruction nausea and other adverse side effects from the diabetes drugppA federal judge has appointed five attorneys to serve on a Suboxone Leadership Development Committee with the goal of using the mass tort to provide experience to younger attorneys on how to navigate a multidistrict litigationppA group of plaintiffs have asked the JPML to consolidate all AngioDynamics port catheter lawsuits before one judge for coordinated pretrial proceedingsppSite Sponsored By Saiontz Kirk PApp2024 Copyright AboutLawsuitscom All Rights ReservedppppΔdocumentgetElementById akjs2 setAttribute value new Date getTime pp indicates required fieldsppΔdocumentgetElementById akjs3 setAttribute value new Date getTime p
