AT&T Customers Targeted by Hack Attack, Company Says

A scattering of AT&T barter were targeted Monday by an organized hacking advance that was ultimately unsuccessful, a aggregation agent tells FoxNews.com.

"We afresh detected what could accept been an organized attack to access advice on a cardinal of chump accounts," AT&T agent Mark Siegel told FoxNews.com. "The bodies in catechism arise to accept acclimated 'auto script' technology to actuate whether AT&T blast numbers were affiliated to online AT&T accounts."

Fewer than 1 percent of barter were targeted, Siegel said, all unsuccessfully. The character of the affair or parties that targeted the AT&T barter has not yet been determined, Siegel told FoxNews.com.

"No accounts were breached and our analysis is advancing to actuate the antecedent or absorbed of the attack to accumulate this information. In the meantime, out of an affluence of caution, we are advising the annual holders involved.

A abrupt arrangement abeyance this morning affecting some barter in New York was unrelated, Siegel said.