The U.S. government has officially charged hackers John Binns and Connor Moucka for their involvement in a massive cyberattack on AT&T, resulting in the breach of approximately 50 billion customer text and call records. While the indictment from the Department of Justice reveals the scale of the attack, the full extent of stolen AT&T customer data remains unclear. The hackers' actions have raised serious concerns about data security and privacy, with significant implications for both consumers and the telecom industry.
In the data breach, AT&T complained that the hackers stole “nearly all” phone records of its landline and cellular customers, along with text message and call records including who connected whom kinds of records, but the message content. As per Tech Crunch, AT&T would notify its 110 million customers of the breach and records stolen from AT&T Snowflake hosted systems, a cloud service provider for data analysis.
As per the reports, the document, instead of AT&T, mentions “Victim-2,” with a description as “a major telecommunications company located in the United States,” being breached on April 14th while aligning with AT&T's statement that it learned about the same on April 19th.
The reports suggest that Binns and Moucka retrieved “billions of sensitive customer records” and successfully extorted three victims for 36 bitcoins, worth around $2.5 million that the time victims were paid for almost a year, from November 2023 to 10th October 2024.
Prosecutors say Moucka, a Canadian citizen, is called on online platforms “catist,” “waif,” “judische,” and “cllyels,” while Binns, a Turkish netizen, known as “j_irdev1337” and “irdev.” Moucka was taken into custody in Canada last week and Binns was arrested in Turkey as per the reports.
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