By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T has reached a combined $177 million settlement over two data breaches . And impacted consumers have a little over a month left to file a claim for their chunk of the money.

Several lawsuits emerged across the U.S. — and were later consolidated — after AT&T notified millions of customers that information ranging from Social Security numbers to call records were compromised in these breaches last year . Plaintiffs alleged that the telecommunications giant “repeatedly failed” to protect consumer data. While AT&T has continued to deny wrongdoing, it opted to settle earlier this year.

“We have agreed to this settlement to avoid the expense and uncertainty of protracted litigation,” AT&T said in a Thursday statement, ad

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