{"id":146907,"date":"2025-08-15T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146907\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:40:12","slug":"att-customers-are-eligible-for-up-to-7500-in-settlement-payout-heres-how-to-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146907\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T customers are eligible for up to $7,500 in settlement payout. Here\u2019s how to apply"},"content":{"rendered":"

AT&T customers whose information was stolen in two separate data breaches<\/a> can apply for their share \u2014 up to $7,500 \u2014 of a $177 million settlement.<\/p>\n

The Dallas-based company agreed to settle a class action lawsuit following data breaches last year that resulted in the leak of sensitive information of millions of customers.<\/p>\n

The first breach<\/a>, announced in March 2024, affected 73 million current and former AT&T customers whose information \u2014 including names, birth dates and Social Security Numbers \u2014 leaked onto the dark web, opening them up to potential identity fraud. <\/p>\n

A second breach<\/a>, announced in July 2024, exposed the records of calls and text messages of nearly all AT&T wireless customers as well as customers of mobile virtual network operators hosted by AT&T servers, like Cricket Wireless or StraightTalk. Data was illegally downloaded from an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform hosted by Snowflake, Inc.<\/p>\n

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A flurry of lawsuits filed in state and federal courts followed the breaches and were consolidated into a class-action suit.<\/p>\n

Related:AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes<\/a>How to apply for a settlement<\/p>\n

Customers must submit a claim online<\/a> or by mail by Nov. 18 to receive a payment. Affected customers should have received an email notifying them they are eligible. To file a claim, customers must have a \u201cClass Member ID,\u201d included in the email from settlement administrator Kroll. <\/p>\n

Check your spam folder or other email filters if you cannot find the email. If you are not sure whether you are included, Kroll recommends calling 833-890-4930 or sending a letter to AT&T Data Incident Settlement; c\/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC; P.O. Box 5324; New York, NY 10150-5324. Some customers have said on social media they also had luck filling out the Contact Us<\/a> form on the settlement administrator\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

How much could you get?<\/p>\n

Customers whose data was exposed in the first breach are eligible for up to $5,000 if they can show financial losses with supporting documents. Customers affected by the second breach could receive up to $2,500 if they can show documented losses.<\/p>\n

Without documentation, customers can apply for what Kroll called a Tier 3 payment. The amount will depend on the funds remaining after other costs and claims have been paid.<\/p>\n

A final hearing to approve the settlement is set for Dec. 3. It is not clear when payments will be distributed, but the claim administrator asked customers for patience.<\/p>\n

Data security<\/p>\n

AT&T<\/a> has more than 100 million customers in the U.S. and almost 2.5 million business accounts.<\/p>\n

Digital privacy is a growing issue, and online users should be cautious of data theft. Recommended personal protection measures<\/a> include credit freezes, multifactor account authentication and changing passwords to include combinations of numbers, letters and symbols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT&T customers whose information was stolen in two separate data breaches can apply for their share \u2014 up…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,24340,356,1596,6459,50,158,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-146907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-att","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-money","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115030944953124573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}