Customers Could Receive up to $7,500 in AT&T Settlement
The latest data violations in AT & T may be highly costly for the company. The telecommunication giant will pay millions of customers as part of a class action agreement, and some customers can get thousands of people.
Kroll Settlement Management says that in 2024, customers’ sensitive information leaked in the dark network. This violation in March included addresses, social security numbers, birth dates, passwords, billing numbers and phone numbers.
In July, a subsequent violation that year united the issue. In this case, more customer data have been collected for individual customers, including search logs.
The reconciliation website says customers can make a request. Until Thursday, November 18, if they send documents that prove that they are affected by data violations, they can get up to $ 5,000.
In addition, those who have leaked social security numbers as part of the first data violation may apply for a layered payment system. The level in this system is five times higher than the amount of Tier Two.
Customers affected by the second data violation may also be suitable for $ 2,500 and put the total payment for customers up to $ 7,500.
In 2024, AT&T data violations were recorded as an important passage in cyber security and was at risk of endangering thousands of customers’ identities or financing.
“These are incredibly sensitive personal information pieces, and when the information that seems to be included in this horse & T violation, they offer a large NSA-like window to the Americans’ efficiency,” said John Scott-Realton, a researcher of Toronto University.
Scott-Reilton described Hack in an interview with CNBC as “megabreach”And other experts acknowledged that the amount of sensitive information was severe.
Johns Hopkins Cyber Security Research Institute Professor Thomas Rid said, “If you have a commodity data, you know when they go to work, go to work, sleep every night,” he said.
In total, AT&T is expected to pay $ 177 million to customers as a result of the agreement. As the end of the year and the deadline for application, we will see if these estimates are correct.
Customers can get up to $ 7,500 in AT & T settlement He first took part in Men’s magazine on August 14, 2025
