“'Nearly all' AT&T customers' data was obtained by hackers in one of the biggest data breaches in US history.

The telecoms giant said the call and text records of more than 110 million wireless customers were accessed over a five month period in 2022.

Although the exposed data did not include customer names, there are 'publicly available online tools' capable of connecting numbers with people's identities, the company said.

AT&T admitted it had first learned about the hack in April, but is [only] now notifying former and current customers who were impacted. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13627871

It's also important to note that this didn't include content of texts or calls. Your thread title is as sensationalists as the articles online.

It's not a nothingburger, but it really is just a lot of phone numbers that got released. Sure they have to disclose it, but at this point in the game your phone number being in the wild in isolation from other meaningful ID is meaningless, IMHO.

If nothing but phone numbers were released then I apologize for posting the article. I didn’t recognize that that was the case.

Maybe not meaningless in terms of the number of spam texts/calls you might receive, but certainly not a serious security threat if talking about penetration/spoofing/etc.

Cingular has always been bad about protecting their customers from this kind of shit. Cingular was spun off from SBC and BellSouth to service the mobile market in 2000 shortly before SBC began marketing themselves as AT&T (AT&T Inc.) Later the real AT&T (AT&T Corp.) was acquired by SBC as part of a bunch of acquisitions and divestitures of regional mobile providers. The name Cingular became disreputable for poor service and even worse customer service, and they started calling themselves AT&T Mobility Services. It appears they changed their name, but not their business practices, and the current company is very much not the traditional Bell System/AT&T that "everybody remembers" (some fondly, some not so much).