AT&T Data Breach
Last Updated on January 28, 2025
At A Glance
- What's Going On?
- Attorneys are gathering people affected by the March 2024 AT&T data breach to take legal action via mass arbitration.
- What Am I Signing Up For, Exactly?
- You are signing up for what’s known as mass arbitration, which is different from a class action and involves hundreds or thousands of consumers filing individual arbitration claims against the same company at the same time.
- Does This Cost Anything?
- It costs nothing to sign up, and the attorneys will only get paid if they win your claim.
AT&T Data Breach:
Legal Investigation
Attorneys working with ClassAction.org are looking into whether legal action can be taken in light of the AT&T data breach.
On March 30, 2024, AT&T confirmed that it was impacted by a data breach affecting 73 million current and former customers. The company released a statement reporting that a data set posted on the dark web two weeks earlier contained AT&T data-specific fields that may have originated from AT&T or one of its vendors. The data set appeared to be from 2019 or earlier and impacted roughly 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former customers, AT&T stated.
According to an article on the company's website, the AT&T data breach exposed customers' names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, AT&T account numbers, and passcodes, though the compromised information varied by customer.
Some media reports suggest that the exposed data set contained the same information as a previous breach in 2021, when a threat actor known as Shiny Hunters claimed to be selling stolen data belonging to 73 million AT&T customers, though AT&T never confirmed that breach.
The company said it reset customers' passcodes and would notify affected individuals by mail or email.
The attorneys are now gathering affected AT&T customers to take legal action via mass arbitration, which is different from a class action lawsuit. If your information was exposed in the March 2024 AT&T data breach, you may be entitled to hundreds of dollars.
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