Mobile carriers store call logs for years
Original title: Your Mobile Carrier Stores Your Call Logs for Years
AT&T exposed 109 million customers' call logs in 2024; carriers retain data for extended periods.
AT&T suffered a data breach exposing call logs of 109 million customers from 2022-2023. Carriers generally retain call detail records for years. Cape offers privacy-focused service with shorter retention periods for logs.
- AT&T breach exposed logs from 2022-2023
- Call logs reveal personal relationships and routines
- Salt Typhoon compromised major US carriers
- Cape deletes SIP messages after 14 days
- Cape deletes internal CDRs after 1 day
- Threat actors
- Salt Typhoon
- Victims
- AT&T customers
- Countries
- USA
From the original article
4 min read at bleepingcomputer.com
Mobile carriers can retain years of call and text metadata, exposing sensitive details about customers' relationships, locations, and daily routines if breached. Cape examines the privacy risks of long-term telecom data retention and how its mobile service reduces exposure by automatically deleting call records. [...]
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