Today’s news briefs include a massive AT&T data breach; Study says most cancer preventable; World leader flies to Mar-a-Lago for meeting.
AT&T customer data hack
AT&T has admitted data on nearly all of its 110 million customers were exposed in a massive breach. The hack included call and text message records in mid-to-late 2022 and again in early 2023. AT&T blamed an “illegal download” on a third-party cloud platform. AT&T said the compromised data includes the telephone numbers of “nearly all” of its cellular customers and the customers of wireless providers that use its network. It has launched an investigation and authorities have already made one arrest.
Most cancer is preventable: study
A new study finds that 40% of new cancer cases, and half of all deaths among American adults ages 30 and older in the United States could be prevented. The American Cancer Society says changes in lifestyle include ending smoking (contributing to nearly 1 in 5 cancer cases and nearly a third of cancer deaths) plus reducing excess body weight, alcohol consumption, and improving physical inactivity, and diet. Certain cancers are more preventable than others, the new study suggests. Modifiable risk factors contributed to more than half of new cases for 19 of the 30 types of cancer evaluated.
World leader meets with Trump
Donald Trump is on the radar of European leaders as he looks increasingly likely to win the presidential election. Viktor Orban, President of the Council of the European Union and Hungarian Prime Minister, left the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., and flew to Florida for a private consultation with the former president, the New York Times reports. At a panel in Washington hosted by POLITICO and the German newspaper Welt, the top defense officials from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania made a forceful case for NATO using golf analogies in an apparent effort to send a message to Trump that they agree with his previous efforts to increase member states’ financial commitments. During Trump’s term in office, he successfully forced NATO countries to increase their contributions by $110 billion. Trump said the US could not be expected to unilaterally fund the defense organization.
–Dwight Widaman | Metro Voice a nd wire services