AT&T reportedly gave $370,000 to a hacker to delete its stolen customer data

AT&T reportedly negotiated done an intermediary, called Reddington, acting connected behalf of a personnel of nan ShinyHunters hacking group. The hacker primitively asked for $1 cardinal earlier AT&T talked them down to nan amount, which it paid connected May 17th successful bitcoin, Wired writes.

The outlet reports that Reddington, whom AT&T paid for his portion successful negotiations, said he believes nan only complete transcript of nan information had been deleted aft AT&T paid nan ransom, but that it’s imaginable excerpts are still successful nan wild. Reddington besides reportedly said he negotiated pinch respective different companies for nan hackers, too.

Before AT&T announced nan breach, it was reported that Ticketmaster and Santander Bank were besides compromised, via nan stolen login credentials of an worker of third-party unreality retention institution Snowflake. Wired reports that, aft nan Ticketmaster attack, hackers utilized a book to hack potentially much than 160 companies simultaneously.