Frontier fallout as 750K customers' data exposed in RansomHub cyberattack
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Frontier’s breach affects 750K customers’ data. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says Frontier's efforts to make things right are appreciated but shouldn't have happened in the first place.
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Frontier Communications is warning 750,000 customers that their information was exposed in a data breach. "On April 14, 2024, we detected unauthorized access to some of our internal IT systems. Our investigation identified your personal information among the data affected by this incident," the telco wrote in a notification sent to affected customers.
The sample of the notice submitted to the Office of the Maine Attorney General has censored the types of data exposed in this incident. However, full names and Social Security numbers were confirmed as breached for 751,895 customers, according to a Bleeping Computer report. Frontier assures that no customer financial information was exposed due to this breach.
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