Rep. Abigail Spanberger, shown here at the 2024 State of the Union address in March, wants answers from AT&T about a recent hack. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, shown here at the 2024 State of the Union address in March, wants answers from AT&T about a recent hack.

House lawmaker demands answers from AT&T on recent data breach

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House lawmaker demands answers from AT&T on recent data breach

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, shown here at the 2024 State of the Union address in March, wants answers from AT&T about a recent hack.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger wants AT&T’s CEO to open up about the company’s incident response plans and a reported payment to hackers in exchange for deleting the stolen data.

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