AT&$T reportedly paid a hacker 5.7 Bitcoin, worth $373,646, to film themselves deleting stolen customer phone calls and texts. The data of nearly all of AT&$T's 109 million wireless customers was stolen by the ShinyHunters ransomware group. The hackers initially demanded $1 million, but AT&$T negotiated the ransom down to less than $400,000.
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