“The move by AT&T came this week after Mitnick hired a
lawyer to complain that his privacy was being invaded by people
posting Mitnick’s account information in public hacking forums. It
included the eight-digit password Mitnick used to authenticate
himself online, the numbers for his cell phone and land lines, his
billing address, and the last four digits of his social security
number.“”They can’t seem to secure my account,” Mitnick told The
Register. “And then instead of doing something about it, they try
to kill the messenger and want to boot me off their network when
all I want them to do is to secure my account so no one gets access
to my phone records.””
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