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AT&T's $177 million settlement is for data breaches in 2019 and 2024.
Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), or both.
File claim by Nov. 18, 2025, either online or by mail.
If you're a current or former AT&T customer, you can now file a claim to be part of a $177 million class-action settlement over two major data breaches. But the deadline to file is quickly approaching. The breaches -- one dating back to 2019 and a second in 2024 -- exposed Social Security numbers, call and text records, names, addresses, dates of birth, and more.
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AT&T created two settlement funds: a $149 million pool for customers whose personal details were leaked in the first breach (announced March 2024) and a $28 million pool for those whose call and text logs were exposed in the Snowflake hack (July 2024).
Kroll Settlement Administration, the firm managing the settlement, opened the claim process in August for affected customers so that they can be paid out from one or both funds. Here's how and when to file.
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