ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216197/adt-hackers-obtained-customer-information-breach

Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT customer records.

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WhyFlip@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

You'd have to have a complete buffoon at the helm in this day and age to knowingly sit on a breach.

cynthorpe@discuss.online · 1 pts · 2y

Wonder if they even knew they had been breached

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