CLEVELAND 13 (WCTU) — A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas granted preliminary approval on June 20 to a $177 million class-action settlement between AT&T and users affected by two separate data breaches. The agreement resolves claims related to unauthorized access to customer data in incidents reported in 2024.
Under the terms of the settlement, AT&T will allocate $149 million to compensate victims of a breach involving customer data dating back to 2019 or earlier, and $28 million for claims tied to a separate breach of call and text metadata spanning from May to October 2022 and early January 2023. Customers who can document financial losses linked to the 2019-era breach may receive up to $5,000. Those impacted by the Snowflake cloud breach can claim up to $2,500.
The first breach involved a leak of information affecting approximately 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers. The second incident exposed call and text metadata from nearly 109 million accounts, though it did not include the contents of communications or sensitive identifiers such as Social Security numbers…