How To Get Your Share Of At&t's $177m Data Breach Settlement - Secure That $7,500 Payout Asap

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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 Nov. 18, 2025, either online aliases by mail.

If you're a existent aliases erstwhile AT&T customer, here's immoderate bully news: You tin now record a declare successful a recently approved $177 cardinal class-action settlement stemming from 2 monolithic information breaches. These hacks -- 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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On Monday, Kroll Settlement Administration, nan patient managing nan settlement, announced that nan declare process is officially unfastened for affected customers. AT&T has group up 2 abstracted funds: a $149 cardinal excavation for anyone 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 (announced July 2024). 

You tin taxable a declare to person a payout from 1 aliases some funds. Here's how.

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. Don't panic if you haven't received thing yet -- it started August 4 and should proceed done October 2025.

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 Nov. 18, 2025.

When is nan deadline to record a claim?

Settlement claims request to beryllium submitted by Nov. 18, 2025. 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 Oct. 17, 2025. The last support proceeding for nan projected colony will beryllium Dec. 3, 2025.

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When will nan payouts begin?

If nan projected colony is approved successful December, payouts will apt statesman successful early 2026.

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