AT&T 73M Leak: The 2019 Dataset That Resurfaced Free
March 2024's 73-million-record AT&T leak was an old wound reopened: a 2019-era vendor-workspace dataset, shopped unsuccessfully in 2021, finally dumped free on a hacking forum with SSNs and account details intact. This account disentangles it from the concurrent Snowflake campaign, explains why free publication maximizes criminal utility, maps the 7.6 million passcode resets, and follows the extortion thread that later surfaced in DOJ filings.