In April 2024, a major data breach of AT&T customer records resulted in a remarkable 110,000,000 victim notices, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2024 Annual Data Breach Report. The price tag for those privacy violations — combined with another 2019 data breach — now appears to be set at a similarly impressive $177 million.

Vineri, 20 iunie, judecătoarea districtuală americană Ada Brown a acordat aprobarea preliminară termenilor unei propuneri de înțelegere de la AT&T Aceasta ar rezolva două procese legate de încălcările de date. Conform acordului actual, AT&T ar plăti 14.177 de milioane de litigii clienților afectați negativ de cel puțin una dintre cele două încălcări de date. 

The settlement will prioritize larger payments to customers who suffered damages that are “fairly traceable” to the data leaks. It will also provide bigger payments to those impacted by the larger of the two leaks, which began in 2019. While the company is working towards a settlement, it has continued to deny that it was “responsible for these criminal acts.”

For all the details about we have about the settlement right now, keep reading, and for more info about other recent settlements, find out cum să revendici acordul de confidențialitate Siri de la Apple și vezi dacă ești eligibil pentru Acordul 23andMe privind încălcarea confidențialității.

Ce s-a întâmplat cu aceste încălcări de date ale AT&T?

AT&T first confirmed the two data breaches last year, announcing an investigation into the first in March before confirming it în Mai, followed by confirmation of the second one in July.

The first of the confirmed breaches began in 2019. The company revealed that around 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former account holders had their data exposed to hackers, including names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth. The company first began investigating the situation last year after it reported that customer data had appeared on the dark web. 

The second breach began in April of 2024, when a hacker broke into AT&T cloud storage provider Snowflake and accessed 2022 call and text records for almost all of the company’s US customers, around 109 million in all. The company stressed that no names were attached to the stolen data, and two individuals were arrested in connection with the breach.

Ambele incidente au declanșat un val de procese colective în care se pretindea neglijență corporativă din partea AT&T, care nu și-a protejat suficient clienții.

How will I know if I’m eligible for the AT&T data breach settlement?

În prezent, știm că despăgubirea va fi plătită oricărui client AT&T actual sau fost ale cărui date au fost accesate în cadrul uneia dintre aceste încălcări de securitate a datelor, plățile mai mari fiind rezervate celor care pot furniza dovezi documentate că au suferit daune rezultate direct din furtul datelor lor.

If you’re eligible, you should receive a notice about it, either by email or by a physical letter in the mail, sometime in the coming months. The company expects that the claims process will begin on Aug. 4, 2025.

Cât vor fi plățile AT&T pentru încălcarea datelor?

You’ll have to “reasonably” prove damages caused by these data breaches to be eligible for the highest and most prioritized payouts. For the 2019 breach, those claimants can receive up to $5,000. For the Snowflake breach, the max payout will be $2,500. It’s not clear at this time how the company might be handling customers who’ve been affected by both breaches.

AT&T will focus on making those payments first, and whatever’s left of the $177 million settlement total will be disbursed to anyone whose data was accessed, even without proof of damages. Since these payouts depend on how many people get the higher amounts first, we can’t say definitively how much they will be.

Când aș putea fi plătit în baza acordului AT&T privind încălcarea datelor?

AT&T expects that payments will start to go out sometime in early 2026. Exact dates aren’t available right now. The recent court order approving the settlement lists a notification schedule of Aug. 4 to Oct. 17, 2025. 

The deadline for submitting a claim is currently set at Nov. 18, 2025. The final approval of the settlement needs to be given at a Dec. 3, 2025 court hearing in order for payments to begin.

Stay tuned to this piece in the coming months to get all the new details as they emerge, and for more money help, check out Monitorul zilnic de impact asupra prețurilor tarifelor de la CNET.