have to do is download our app. It is free in your phone's app store. Okay, now to word of a massive data breach for AT&T. Someone illegally downloaded call and texting records to a third party cloud platform for six months in 2022. And now the feds are investigating. So let's go and bring in our business and tech reporter, Scott Budman. So, Scott, even if you don't use AT&T, your records could have still been stolen. Yeah, right. Potentially. Audrey. Because what happened here is 110 million users of AT&T were hacked. Text messages and phone messages. But we call people that don't have AT&T and their phones and texts and information can be accessed as well. So this really could be anyone and this could be dangerous. The hackers found a way in through a third party, an outside source that was supposed to be providing security, ironically, to AT&T. They found a hole they got in, and instead of, like many hacks where we talk about, hey, they have your driver's license or financial information in this way, they do have text information and phone information. And that is also, as it turns out, quite dangerous. Yeah. And I know you got a chance to speak with the cybersecurity professor about that. So what is at risk with our text messages and our phone messages? It's a great question. And it all comes down to data and what people can piece together on us. And if they have our text messages and text messages that we're sharing with family members and friends and business associates, not to mention phone calls, they can put together lots of information who we are, where we live, who we do business with, where we bank and that's where the danger is. A lot of hackers and cybercriminals want this very information to build profiles that they can use to spoof other people. Because after all, if I get a text message from someone that I don't trust or don't know, I'm less likely to answer it. If I get one from you, Audrey, I'll say, oh, of course I'm going to answer this, but they may have built that profile based on getting your information via a hack. And so it's not really you who's sending that text message. And someone might give out something personal because of it. So we really have to be careful in the days and weeks ahead knowing this information is out there and possibly being put together to try to spoof us and get private data from us. So. So how do we protect ourselves and how do we not get spoofed? Just be extra careful and we talk about this a lot. There are banks, the post office, all sorts of organizations that never text us or call. So if we get one of those things, our spider sense should tingle and say, this is probably not that. Now just be extra careful. If you get even from a friend or an associate and something just doesn't pass that smell test, maybe call that friend separately and saying, hey, I just want to make sure you're texting me because there's been this giant data hack and we have to be a little extra careful so that we're not giving out personal data to what could be a stranger on the other end of the line. And that's a lot of information within six months in 2022. So we have to be
