The FBI couldn’t get a single thing done if it weren’t for their trained rats. Ones who get heavy cheese for hard to get inside information. The identities of their confidential informants may have been revealed by the big AT&T hack attack. That’s not a good thing.
FBI call logs
One of the datasets looted from AT&T by hackers included FBI call logs. Ones that “could unravel investigations and jeopardize lives.”
On Thursday, January 16, “alarming new details” confirm that the Federal Bureau of Instigation “handed criminals a road map” to their rats.
Outgoing FBI officials pulled the alarm buzzer on their way out the door. They’re finally admitting that “last year’s AT&T system breach likely led to the theft of months’ worth of call and text records tied to federal agents.”

Incoming Director Kash Patel is going to have his hands full protecting the physical safety of bureau informants. That should keep him distracted from digging into the Deep State for a while.
Thanks to the negligent oversight of Christopher Wray, the FBI allowed “all” their devices to be hacked. The intruders got in through AT&T’s “public safety service.” The public doesn’t feel real safe.
The breach “exposed agents’ phone numbers and the numbers they contacted.” Chris is breathing a heavy sigh of relief that “the content of communications” wasn’t included. What the hackers did get is bad enough.
Identify sources
The biggest thing FBI officials are afraid of is the near certainty that “the stolen data could be used to identify investigators’ sources.”
The phone company was attacked all the way back in April of 2022 but the instigators waited until mere hours before the transition of federal power to clue everyone in.
In July of that same year, AT&T verified “that the attack had compromised data from approximately 109 million customer accounts.” They didn’t bother to mention that the FBI was one of those customers. Neither did the bureau.

“The stolen records included detailed logs of calls and texts from that year, underscoring the breach’s massive scale.” Everyone is wondering who else was on that customer list at the time.
The bureau takes the welfare and safety of their embedded informants seriously, they claim as the honchos turn it into somebody else’s problem.
“The FBI has a solemn responsibility to protect the identity and safety of confidential human sources, who provide information every day that keeps the American people safe, often at risk to themselves.” Kash Patel isn’t happy to have that hot potato dropped in his lap.