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August 20, 2021 Verified Sensitive Record Telecommunications provider

AT&T Identity Dataset Attributed to 2021

The identity dataset attributed to AT&T in 2021 is a six-field dataset catalogued with an August 2021 date and 49,102,176 unique records, with origin initially disputed. Local search contains 49,077,347 records, a difference of 24,829.

49.1 Million
Reported Records
6
Data Types
Critical
Exposure Scope
Oct 10, 2026
Last updated

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Exposed Data Types

6
  • Dates of birth
  • Email addresses
  • Government-issued IDs
  • Names
  • Phone numbers
  • Physical addresses

About This Record

The six classes are dates of birth, emails, government IDs, names, phones, and physical addresses. AT&T later confirmed some fields in the released dataset; whether the source was directly AT&T or a vendor and whether every field occurred for every person remain separate uncertainties.

This is not the separate 2024 call and message-record event. Passwords, payments, bank data, call or message content, and complete communications metadata are not classes. A record does not establish identity, AT&T customer or account status, phone-line ownership, government-ID ownership, field co-occurrence, a SIM change, fraud, or misuse.

SIM, number-porting, identity, or account-recovery requests should be verified through an independent official carrier channel, and identity and telecommunications associations must remain private.

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