AT&T Reveals Data Breach Affecting Nearly All Customers

The company said it was their understanding at least one individual had been apprehended by law enforcement.

A visitor walks past a AT&T logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 27, 2023. Pau Barrena/AFP via Getty Images

In an announcement on Friday, July 12, AT&T said that they had discovered a data breach in April involving an unauthorized download of data from a third-party cloud platform that affects nearly all of its customers.

The telecommunications company said in a statement they had since launched an investigation and enlisted the help of cybersecurity experts to assess the breach’s scope and nature.