AT&T $177M Settlement for Data Breaches Extended to 2025

Millions of current and former AT&T customers may be eligible for compensation from a $177 million settlement resolving class-action lawsuits over two major data breaches disclosed in 2024. The deadline to file claims has been extended to December 18, 2025, giving affected individuals additional time to seek payouts related to the incidents that exposed sensitive personal information and call records.

The first breach involved customer data from 2019 or earlier, which appeared on the dark web in 2021. AT&T announced the incident in March 2024, stating it affected approximately 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former ones. The compromised information included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, AT&T account numbers and passcodes. Court documents from the lawsuits, filed in federal courts in Texas and Montana, alleged the company failed to adequately protect this data, leading to potential identity theft and financial harm for victims.

The second breach occurred when hackers accessed an AT&T workspace on the third-party cloud platform Snowflake in April 2024. This exposed call and text metadata, such as...