The public has been granted another month to claim a portion of their dues in a recent data breach settlement against AT&T.

The first of the two large-scale breaches was spotted in March 2024, AT&T explained in a statement last year, compromising the addresses, social security numbers, and passcodes of users in a database going back to 2019. An even-larger data breach in 2024 exposed the call logs and text messages of nearly every AT&T customer that took place between approximately May 1 and Oct. 31, 2022, and on Jan. 3, 2023.

In June, courts ruled that the company would dole out $177 million to affected AT&T customers who had accounts between 2019 and 2024. Claimants were divided into two classes: account holders affected by the March 2024 breach would split $149 million, while cu

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