"AT&T Paid Hacker $370K to Erase Stolen Customer Data"
AT&T paid a hacker $370,000 to delete stolen call records of tens of millions of customers. The hacker, part of the ShinyHunters group, provided proof of deletion. The breach, involving unsecured Snowflake cloud storage, affected over 150 companies. The hacker responsible for the breach, John Erin Binns, was arrested in Turkey for an unrelated 2021 T-Mobile hack. Despite the payment, some data may still be at risk.