WASHINGTON — A judge has extended the deadline for AT&T customers to file a claim to be part of a $177 million settlement reached with the telecom giant over customer data breaches discovered in 2024.
The extension was part of an Oct. 3 order from the judge overseeing the case.
AT&T agreed to pay a total of $177 million to settle a class action lawsuit about two "data incidents" from 2024.
The incidents resulted in some customer data, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, account passcodes, billing account numbers and Social Security numbers, being put on the dark web or illegally downloaded off a third-party cloud platform, according to the Kroll Settlement Administration .
The class action lawsuit covers the data incident announced March 30,