(NEXSTAR) — If you’re among the millions of AT&T customers who had their personal data leaked in one (or both) of the data breaches that impacted the company in recent years, you have only a few days to claim your portion of a $177 million settlement.
Payouts of up to $7,500 are available for those whose information was leaked in the breaches. Last year, AT&T confirmed the breaches started in 2019 and 2022.
In the first, the personal information of about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders was found in a dataset on the “dark web.” In the second, the data of nearly all of its customers was found to have been downloaded to a third-party platform.
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Two lawsuits were subsequently brought against AT&T, and a federal judge in Texas gave two settlement funds—one for $149 million, the other for $28 million—preliminary approval…