AT&T Charged with a Class-Action Lawsuit of Negligence after Data Breach

AT&T now faces a legal fight after the phone numbers of over 100 million U.S. customers who used the company’s wireless services between March and October 2022 were stolen in the company’s second major data breach of 2024.

The case (3:24-cv-1797) is a class-action lawsuit against the Dallas-based telecommunications giant, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas late Friday by 15-year AT&T customer and named plaintiff Dina Winger. The suit alleges AT&T wasn’t transparent about the severity of the breach, didn’t safeguard important data from malicious parties and earned “unjust enrichment” from customers after failing to protect their information.

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