AT&T customers are getting surprise password change alerts, but don’t panic yet

Numerous AT&T subscribers share reports of getting password change emails and texts early this morning.

Several of those notifications appear to have gone out at the same time.

Right now it doesn’t look like anyone’s actually been compromised, but we’ve reached out to AT&T to confirm.

Some emails just ruin your day in a heartbeat: boss requesting a meeting to discuss “restructuring,” landlord notifying you of a rent increase, or just getting some bad news from a family member. High on that list has got to be the surprise “your password has been updated” notification when you never changed anything yourself. Today a whole bunch of AT&T users have been waking up to emails just like that — but it might not be cause for alarm, after all.

Over on Reddit’s AT&T sub, we’ve spotted a spate of reports coming in this morning that all describe the same thing: Users getting a message from the carrier in the wee hours …