“If they assess this and they made the wrong call on it, and we’ve had a course of years pass without them being able to notify impacted customers,” then it’s likely the company will soon face class action lawsuits, said Hunt, founder of an Australia-based website that warns people when their personal information has been exposed.
Data breach leaked millions of customers' information online, AT&T says. Were you affected?
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Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned, which lets people know if they are affected by data breaches, said on Twitter that the data leak could prove useful for targeted attacks.
Data of 500 million Facebook users leaked
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