Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-08-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: AT&T
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Muhammad Fahd
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: United States of America
Description: The US Department of Justice reveals that an AT&T employees took bribes to unlock millions of smartphones, and to install malware and unauthorized hardware on the company's network.