Phishing Expedition at Heart of AT&T Hacking

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The San Francisco Chronicle.

[snip]

When AT&T said in a press release this week that "unauthorized persons
illegally hacked into a computer system and accessed personal data"
from thousands of DSL customers, it wasn't telling the whole story.

Internal company documents show that the security breach was only the
first step in a more elaborate scam that involved bogus e-mail being
sent to AT&T customers that attempted to trick them into revealing
additional info that could be used for widespread fraud or identity theft.

[snip]

More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/01/BUGVBKSUIE1.DTL

- ferg


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