{"id":478267,"date":"2026-10-27T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478267\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:50:10","slug":"att-settlement-why-some-customers-will-receive-up-to-7500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478267\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T settlement: Why some customers will receive up to $7,500"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texans<\/a> whose information was stolen in a pair of\u00a0AT&T data breaches<\/a> should soon receive their share of a $177 million settlement.<\/p>\n

A federal judge granted final approval for the settlement earlier this month, and checks should begin going out by the end of the year and beginning of 2027.<\/p>\n

The Dallas<\/a>-based telecommunications company agreed to settle a class action lawsuit following data breaches in 2024 that resulted in the leak of sensitive information of millions of customers.<\/p>\n

Payments will vary widely depending on which breach affected them, what information was exposed and what documentation they submitted.\u00a0Here’s what to know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Customers whose data was exposed in the first breach are eligible for up to $5,000 if they could show financial losses with supporting documents. Those affected by the second breach could receive up to $2,500 if they could show documented losses.<\/p>\n

Without documentation, customers will receive far less, between an estimated $6.50 and $40, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

Nearly 5 million claim forms had been submitted as of Aug. 24, 2026, according to the court’s final approval order.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first breach<\/a>, announced in March 2024, affected 73 million current and former AT&T customers whose information \u2014 including names, birth dates and Social Security Numbers \u2014 leaked onto the dark web, opening them up to potential identity fraud.<\/p>\n

A second breach<\/a>, announced in July 2024, exposed the records of calls and text messages of nearly all AT&T wireless customers as well as customers of mobile virtual network operators hosted by AT&T servers, like Cricket Wireless or StraightTalk. Data was illegally downloaded from an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform hosted by Snowflake, Inc.<\/p>\n

A flurry of lawsuits filed in state and federal courts followed the breaches and were consolidated into a class-action suit.<\/p>\n

Nearly 5 million claim forms had been submitted as of Aug. 24, 2026, according to the court’s final approval order. The settlement administrator had received 754,263 paper claims and 4,163,810 electronic claims, for a total of 4,918,073 claims.<\/p>\n

AT&T has more than 110 million customers in the U.S. and nearly 2.5 million business accounts.<\/p>\n

Digital privacy is a growing issue, and online users should be cautious of data theft. Recommended personal protection measures include credit freezes, multifactor account authentication and changing passwords to include combinations of numbers, letters and symbols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans whose information was stolen in a pair of\u00a0AT&T data breaches should soon receive their share of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88032,89512,97436,92331,87998,99168],"class_list":["post-478267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-att","tag-tp-courts","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}