AT&T Agrees to $177M Settlement Over Two Data Breaches

Current and former AT&T customers may be eligible for a payout from a $177 million settlement connected to two data breaches.

A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on June 20 to the settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over the 2019 and 2024 incidents.

The company announced in July 2024 that call and text message records of nearly all of its cellular customers were exposed. In March of the same year, AT&T said it was investigating a data set released on the “dark web.”

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