A breach of AT&T that exposed “nearly all” of the company’s customers may have included records related to confidential FBI sources, potentially explaining the bureau’s new embrace of end-to-end encryption.

Hackers who breached AT&T's systems may have handed criminals a roadmap to FBI informants, stealing call logs that could unravel investigations and jeopardize lives, according to alarming new details revealed Thursday.

They believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs.