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The latest AT&T hack involved the theft of calls and texts of over 100 million AT&T customers. Although the stolen files contained no personal data or text content, the hacker demonstrated how a reverse-lookup program could easily connect the call and text message metadata to the names of family members, colleagues, and, in some cases, a user’s general location and movements. Stopping short of issuing an apology, AT&T simply acknowledged regret for the incident and casually slipped in the fact that disclosure of the data breach was delayed for two months by the FBI and Department of Justice. AT&T is one of many organizations that tout “cyber resilience” — a buzzword strategy that shows how well a company or government agency can anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyber-attacks. With cyber-attacks rising dramatically in the past year — as the AT&T debacle illustrates — the term is now synonymous with embarrassing system vulnerabilities.

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