 The online digital economy is actually quite favorable to the consumer right now. We've seen prices come down. Adobe expects electronics and back-to-school items to be among those with the biggest discounts. Alex Stone, ABC News. An AT&T may have paid off a hacker who stole data on nearly all of its customers. The company last week revealed that logs of calls and texts were stolen earlier this year, the ransom about $400,000 worth of Bitcoin. Sherry Preston, ABC News.