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Erroneous Texts giving a verification code

I am getting frequent texts on my phone saying it is an AT&T msg and giving a one-time verification code. I do not have an AT&T phone. I am getting several of these a day now. How do I stop them?

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Data Breach

What is AT&T doing about the recent data breach, besides claiming it did not come from their network?

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How do I remove a question that I posted here yesterday? It should be posted in Internet Equipment.

Yesterday I posted a question here: What stand-alone hardware firewall is compatible upstream of my AT&T Pace 5268AC? It should be posted in Internet Equipment. I don't want to double-post. Thanks.

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Can't save a new email contact

I have not been able to save a new contact in my address book (@sbcglobal.net) for two weeks now. It saves the contact's name and email address for about 30 seconds, then the contact disappears. I called ten days ago and was told that there was a server problem. Can ATT please tell me why they ar

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broken DNS on UVerse static IP

The addresses in our static netblock are listed by AT&T with "uvs.hstntx.sbcglobal.net" as their parent domain, but this domain no longer exists. As a result, our reverse DNS records no longer forward-resolve. This causes our hosts to be rejected by servers. A quick look at other AT&T add

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Email problems

I am unable to open my email. It does not recognize my password or my security question answers. I keep getting messages that AT&T is unable to access my account, or that there were too many attempts to access it. Please help! I have tried everything.

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Port 21

I was doing port scanning on GRC and it's showing my port 21 closed. How do I stealth it, so it's not visible to the web? I'm using a ATT fiber router.

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signing-in to att account sometimes requires give mobile number for verification code

Not sure my message and question is in the correct forum place. Starting last year, AT&T required online account holder to give a mobile phone number for account verification (for yahoo/att/currently home page sign-in). So we made use of my mobile number, a NON At&t number, for

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keep email account after closing uverse account

I would like to keep using my @bellsouth and @att email accounts after closing my u-verse internet service.

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Data stolen and used for fraud

I have proof of my data being stolen through my AT&T account and fraud was committed on my credit card recently. I want the free experian 1 yr subscription for my husband and I as his soc sec # was also found in a data breach. Please send me an email with a code to subscribe to experian. I never

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