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AT&T denied that it was its database, and claimed that its systems were not breached.

However, it still didnt say how the hackers obtained the database.

In any case, the company revised the number of affected individuals, pinning it down to 51,226,382.

Apparently, many of the people on the list had duplicate entries.

“To the best of our knowledge, personal financial information and call history were not included.

Based on our investigation to date, the data comes off as from June 2019 or earlier.”

Some people had more than one account in the dataset, and others did not have sensitive personal information.

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