AT&T DATA BREACH service failure

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I was told on this form that the date of AT&T‘s fault. That’s entirely laughable given that we as a community has given AT&T the private information in order to gain access to their services. They then farmed it out to other subsidy areas, and were subject to the data breach. We are all now, suffering the consequences of their inept business practices. I have reached out several times with no results to demand that they extend The credit monitoring. I have nothing but disdain for AT&T. I will leave them as quickly as I can. Any company that holds private information should be held when they lose it.

Call around. Practically every major corporation does this and some even use off-shore vendors. It saves them money and makes their investors happy. Should it be done? No. And all previous customer data should be purged after a period of time, not kept for years. But, that's the way Corporate America works.