AT&T paid hacker 6 bitcoins to film deletion of stolen data
AT&T reportedly paid a Hack er 5.7 Bitcoin s worth $373,646 to film themselves deleting tens of millions of customer phone calls and texts stolen from the US-based telecommunications giant. The company revealed on Friday that the data of “nearly all” of its 109 million AT&T Wireless customers was stolen by the ShinyHunters crypto ransomware group in April through its account at cloud data firm Snowflake. According to WIRED, a 5.7 bitcoin transaction took place on May 17. This was confirmed by the head of global investigations for the crypto-tracing firm TRM who added that the money was being laundered through various crypto exchanges and wallets. WIRED reports that the Hack ers had originally demanded $1 million before AT&T negotiated to bring the ransom down to less than $400,000. Snowflake student data seller lowers $2M bitcoin ransom demand to $150K Read more: Compound Finance and Celer Network websites compromised in ‘front-end’ attacks Accordin...