Following AT&T’s admission on Friday that a security breach had impacted tens of millions of its customers, a new report claims that the carrier paid around $370,000 to the hacker to delete all of the stolen data.
The payment was made in cryptocurrency in May, and as part of the deal the hacker had to provide a video that proved the data had been deleted, Wired reported on Sunday.
The news site carried out its own investigations into the payment and concluded that the transaction did indeed take place.
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