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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

In its report, TechCrunch said that "this is the first time that AT&T has acknowledged that the leaked data belongs to its customers, some three years after a hacker claimed the theft of 73 million AT&T customer records." ...

TechCrunch, which first reported on the passcode reset, said it informed AT&T on Monday that "the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T customer accounts.". . TechCrunch said it delayed publishing its article until the company "could begin resetting customer account passcodes." ...

No momentum supporting factor found

Challenge supporting factors

(company,techcrunch)

(company,resetting)

(techcrunch,evidence)

Work-in-progress supporting factors

(company,information)

(company,techcrunch)

(company,web)

(company,telecommunications)

(company,social_security)

(company,services)

(company,representative)

(techcrunch,resetting)

(techcrunch,representative)

(techcrunch,questions)

(techcrunch,article)

Time Period	Challenge	Momentum	WIP
Report	16.67	0.00	83.34

High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

High Level Abstraction (HLA)	Report
(1) (company,techcrunch)	100.00
(2) (company,information)	89.19
(3) (company,web)	40.54
(4) (company,telecommunications)	37.84
(5) (company,social_security)	35.14
(6) (company,services)	32.43
(7) (company,resetting)	29.73
(8) (company,representative)	27.03
(9) (company,questions)	24.32
(10) (company,phone)	21.62
(11) (company,mailing)	18.92
(12) (company,knowledge)	16.22
(13) (techcrunch,resetting)	13.51
(14) (techcrunch,representative)	10.81
(15) (techcrunch,questions)	8.11
(16) (techcrunch,evidence)	5.41
(17) (techcrunch,article)	2.70

Supporting narratives:

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challenge - Back to HLA

. In its report, TechCrunch said that "this is the first time that AT&T has acknowledged that the leaked data belongs to its customers, some three years after a hacker claimed the theft of 73 million AT&T customer records." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,techcrunch)

challenge - Back to HLA

TechCrunch, which first reported on the passcode reset, said it informed AT&T on Monday that "the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T customer accounts.". . TechCrunch said it delayed publishing its article until the company "could begin resetting customer account passcodes.". . In its report, TechCrunch said that "this is the first time that AT&T has acknowledged that the leaked data belongs to its customers, some three years after a hacker claimed the theft of 73 million AT&T customer records." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,resetting)

challenge - Back to HLA

AT&T said that it did not know whether the leaked data "originated from AT&T or one of its vendors" and that it "does not have evidence of unauthorized access to its systems resulting in theft of the data set.". ...
High Level Abstractions:

(techcrunch,evidence)

WIP - Back to HLA

TechCrunch, which first reported on the passcode reset, said it informed AT&T on Monday that "the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T customer accounts.". . TechCrunch said it delayed publishing its article until the company "could begin resetting customer account passcodes." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,techcrunch)

WIP - Back to HLA

"To the best of our knowledge, the compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and does not contain personal financial information or call history.". . The company said that "information varied by customer and account," but that it may have included a person's full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,information)

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. The company said it would be "reaching out to individuals with compromised sensitive personal information separately and offering complimentary identity theft and credit monitoring services." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,information)

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The telecommunications giant AT&T announced on Saturday that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after it determined that compromised customer data was "released on the dark web.". ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,web)

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Nearly eight million customers and 65.4 million former account holders were affected by the data breach, the company said.. . The telecommunications giant AT&T announced on Saturday that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after it determined that compromised customer data was "released on the dark web." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,telecommunications)

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The company said that "information varied by customer and account," but that it may have included a person's full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,social_security)
(company,phone)

WIP - Back to HLA

The company said it would be "reaching out to individuals with compromised sensitive personal information separately and offering complimentary identity theft and credit monitoring services.". ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,services)

WIP - Back to HLA

It also said that it was starting a "robust investigation supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts.". . A company representative did not address specific questions about how the breach happened or why it went unnoticed for so long ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,representative)

WIP - Back to HLA

It also said that it was starting a "robust investigation supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts.". . A company representative did not address specific questions about how the breach happened or why it went unnoticed for so long. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,questions)

WIP - Back to HLA

The company said that "information varied by customer and account," but that it may have included a person's full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,mailing)

WIP - Back to HLA

"To the best of our knowledge, the compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and does not contain personal financial information or call history." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,knowledge)

WIP - Back to HLA

. TechCrunch said it delayed publishing its article until the company "could begin resetting customer account passcodes.". ...
High Level Abstractions:

(techcrunch,resetting)
(techcrunch,article)

WIP - Back to HLA

A company representative did not address specific questions about how the breach happened or why it went unnoticed for so long. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(techcrunch,representative)

WIP - Back to HLA

A company representative did not address specific questions about how the breach happened or why it went unnoticed for so long.. . TechCrunch, which first reported on the passcode reset, said it informed AT&T on Monday that "the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T customer accounts." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(techcrunch,questions)

Semantics Relevance

AT&T Resets Millions of Passcodes After Customer Records Are Leaked