AT&T customers could receive up to $7,500 as part of a $177 million data breach settlement. Here's who qualifies.

• AT&T has experienced multiple data breaches in recent years, prompting a class-action lawsuit. • The company agreed to pay affected AT&T customers $177 million as part of a settlement. • The deadline to submit a claim and join the settlement is December 17.

If you were one of the tens of millions of AT&T customers whose personal data was leaked online in recent years, you could be eligible for up to $7,500 as part of a settlement.

The telecommunications company revealed in March 2024 that information belonging to millions of current and past customers had been leaked on the dark web. Four months later, AT&T said additional customer data had been illegally downloaded from a company workspace on a third-party cloud platform back in 2022.

Both incidents spurred lawsuits against AT&T,