ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

After repeatedly denying, AT&T has confirmed data leaked for 73 million current and former customers! This affects us. The data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and, for many customers, social security numbers and birth dates.
Here’s one of the articles that I’ve read:
After repeatedly denying, AT&T has confirmed data leaked for 73 million current and former customers! This affects us. The data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and, for many customers, social security numbers and birth dates.
Here’s one of the articles that I’ve read:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atandt-confirms-data-for-73-million-customers-leaked-on-hacker-forum/

Put your email addresses into this site to determine if yours has been compromised, then follow step shown. ATT will send out messages to those compromised with actions to take. In the mean time, change your email passwords and ATT password.
Here’s the site:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Note: My gmail and my wife’s yahoo emails were included in the breach- neither of our icloud emails were (but we didn’t use them with ATT). We move away from ATT about 2 years back but I guess that ATT doesn’t discard our data. So check yours NOW.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

I read that in the news last night - there are a lot of companies that have not admitted data breach…

Thanks for the link - that’s a good site

dbrugger25 Loc: Raleigh, NC

Over the years, I have delt with ATT as a long-distance carrier and subscribed to their DISH network for two painful, terrible service years. This is how I now view the company. If they were the only remaining phone company, I would resort to smoke signals rather that deal with them again.

lbrande

Do you mean DirectTV? Dish is a separate company. FYI, I've never had poor service from DirectTV, but I live in the inland empire ease of LA

dbrugger25 Loc: Raleigh, NC

It might have been DirectTV. They installed a dish antenna on my roof several years ago. I got poor reception and often the image would "dissolve" on the screen. Whenever it rained the signal was constantly poor. I kept calling and was told they weren't responsible for the weather. I would explain the image problems and they would remotely reset my system and the problems continued. Then, one day a workman on my property noticed that the dish was mounted too low on my steep roof and was only partially seeing the sky. I called and was told that I would have to pay $100.00 for a service call.

In a much earlier time period, I had a business. Our phone service was with Verizon but there was an unspecified service charge on our bill. I finally noticed it and called Verizon to inquire about the charge and was told it was an ATT charge. I called ATT and, after a long inquiry, was told it was a charge for two toll-free numbers. I didn't know we had toll free numbers and asked what the numbers were, and they told me. I asked how long I had those numbers and was told it had been five years. I asked how I happened to get those numbers and they couldn't or wouldn't tell me.

I explained that I was the business owner and had never authorized those numbers and that I wanted a refund.

$178.00 per month for about five years would amount to $10,680. They told me I could get a refund for three months and that was all I could get. I insisted on talking to a person with more authority and worked my way up the chain of command. I got nowhere. In fact, the higher up I went, the ruder the people were. At least I got a little refund and stopped the money bleed. I did file a complaint with the appropriate government agencies, such as the FCC, but they didn't do anything to help me.

You can now see why I hate ATT and will never do business with them.

therwol Loc: USA

It pays to look at your bill every month and question charges that you don't understand. I had the same problem with Comcast, being charged for a modem when they never put a modem in my house. The charge was there for as long as I could view my bills online. I always used my own and upgraded as necessary. Like with ATT, they only refunded three months of charges.

I used ATT for my wireless service for a long time. I got a discount through the company I worked for. Even with that, the charges were out of line with other companies. I ditched them for Consumer Cellular. But interestingly, Consumer Cellular will give you a T-Mobile SIMM card as the default or ATT if you ask. I got poor cell phone service in the hilly area where I live with the T-Mobile card and switched to ATT. At least I'm getting their cell service for a lot less than they'd charge me for it.

As for DirecTV, it was a disaster. (From a Satellite Dish. I don't know anything about their Internet streaming plan, which didn't exist when I used their service.) Reception was poor in rainy weather. The DVR recordings were hit or miss. They'd freeze. They would speed up suddenly to lightning speed. DirecTV didn't include all of the local sub-channels like MeTV and others. I had to resort to using an antenna if my wife wanted to watch Leave It To Beaver reruns.

I have an ATT landline, a real landline, not what some companies call a landline that relies on the Internet. I'm about to ditch it. I always felt that it was a safety issue in case of an emergency and possible loss of cell service and Internet. It's costing me over $100 per month. The extra charges on the bill are a mile long. I don't even know what most of them are for. ATT wants to pull out of the landline business in California. Fine with me.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

That's the world we live in. If only companies could find a way to prevent break-ins.