At&t Customers Can Still Claim Up To $7,500 From $177m Data Breach Settlement - Here's How

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• AT&T's $177 cardinal colony is for information breaches successful 2019 and 2024.
• Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), aliases both.
• File declare by Dec. 18, 2025, either online aliases by mail.

If you're a existent aliases erstwhile AT&T customer, nan deadline to record a declare to beryllium portion of nan $177 cardinal class-action settlement complete 2 awesome information breaches has been extended. The breaches -- 1 making love backmost to 2019 and a second successful 2024 -- exposed Social Security numbers, telephone and matter records, names, addresses, dates of birth, and more.

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AT&T created 2 colony funds: a $149 cardinal excavation for customers whose individual specifications were leaked successful nan first breach (announced March 2024) and a $28 cardinal excavation for those whose telephone and matter logs were exposed successful nan Snowflake hack (July 2024).

Kroll Settlement Administration, nan patient managing nan settlement, opened nan declare process successful August for affected customers truthful that they tin beryllium paid retired from 1 aliases some funds. Here's really and erstwhile to file.

How overmuch tin I get from nan settlement?

If you record a claim, you could person up to $5,000 from nan first money (called AT&T 1 Settlement Class) and $2,500 from nan 2nd (AT&T 2 Settlement Class) -- truthful dual-breach victims mightiness get arsenic overmuch arsenic $7,500.

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Your nonstop payout will dangle connected really galore group apply, but higher payments will beryllium reserved for those who tin beryllium immoderate out-of-pocket damages. You'll request to taxable archiving that's "fairly traceable" erstwhile you record a declare to beryllium eligible for that higher payout. If you can't beryllium circumstantial losses, you'll still stock successful what's near aft documented-loss claimants are paid.

How do I cognize if I qualify?

The colony covers immoderate existent aliases erstwhile AT&T customer whose information was accessed successful 1 of nan breaches. If you're eligible, you'll person a announcement by email aliases beingness message from Kroll Settlement Administration.

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According to nan colony website, email notices were sent to customers from nan reside attsettlement@e.emailksa.com. The notices started rolling retired connected Aug. 4, 2025, and are expected to proceed passim autumn. If you judge you should beryllium included successful either portion of nan AT&T colony but person not received thing yet, you tin telephone nan colony administrator astatine 833-890-4930.

How to taxable your declare

You tin record a declare either online aliases by mail.

Online

Go to TelecomDataSettlement.com, click "Submit Claim," and person your Class Member ID (from your notice), AT&T relationship number (or afloat name), and an email reside handy.

By message

If you don't want to record nan declare online, you tin download and people nan PDF forms for nan first information breach, nan second breach, aliases nan overlap form if you were portion of some breaches. Print, capable out, and motion nan forms, past message them to:

AT&T Data Incident Settlement
c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC
P.O. Box 5324
New York, NY 10150-5324

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Just make judge your mailed declare is postmarked by Dec. 18, 2025.

When is nan deadline to record a claim?

Thanks to a caller deadline extension, colony claims now request to beryllium submitted by Dec. 18, 2025. 

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If you disagree pinch nan colony and want to opt retired truthful you tin writer AT&T yourself, you'll request to do truthful by Nov. 17, 2025. That's besides nan past time to record immoderate general objections. The last support proceeding for nan projected colony is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2026.

When will nan payouts begin?

If nan projected colony is approved successful January, payouts will apt statesman sometime successful 2026, though appeals could hold nan process.

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