AT&T reportedly negotiated by means of an middleman, known as Reddington, performing on behalf of a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group. The hacker initially requested for $1 million earlier than AT&T talked them right down to the quantity, which it paid on Might seventeenth in bitcoin, Wired writes.
The outlet stories that Reddington, whom AT&T paid for his half in negotiations, mentioned he believes the one full copy of the info had been deleted after AT&T paid the ransom, however that it’s potential excerpts are nonetheless within the wild. Reddington additionally reportedly mentioned he negotiated with a number of different corporations for the hackers, too.
Earlier than AT&T introduced the breach, it was reported that Ticketmaster and Santander Financial institution had been additionally compromised, through the stolen login credentials of an worker of third-party cloud storage firm Snowflake. Wired stories that, after the Ticketmaster assault, hackers used a script to hack doubtlessly greater than 160 corporations concurrently.
