You can still claim your AT&T data breach settlement of up to $7,500 - how to apply for free

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• AT&T's $177 cardinal colony is for information breaches successful 2019 and 2024.
• Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), oregon both.
• File assertion by Dec. 18, 2025, either online oregon by mail.

If you're a existent oregon erstwhile AT&T customer, the deadline to record a assertion to beryllium portion of the $177 cardinal class-action settlement implicit 2 large information breaches was precocious extended into adjacent month. The breaches -- 1 dating backmost to 2019 and a second successful 2024 -- exposed Social Security numbers, telephone and substance records, names, addresses, dates of birth, and more.

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AT&T created 2 colony funds: a $149 cardinal excavation for customers whose idiosyncratic details were leaked successful the archetypal breach (announced March 2024) and a $28 cardinal excavation for those whose telephone and substance logs were exposed successful the Snowflake hack (July 2024).

Kroll Settlement Administration, the steadfast managing the settlement, opened the assertion process successful August for affected customers truthful that they tin beryllium paid retired from 1 oregon some funds. Here's however and erstwhile to file.

How overmuch tin I get from the settlement?

If you record a claim, you could person up to $5,000 from the archetypal money (called AT&T 1 Settlement Class) and $2,500 from the 2nd (AT&T 2 Settlement Class) -- truthful dual-breach victims mightiness get arsenic overmuch arsenic $7,500.

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Your nonstop payout volition beryllium connected however galore radical apply, but higher payments volition beryllium reserved for those who tin beryllium immoderate out-of-pocket damages. You'll request to taxable documentation that's "fairly traceable" erstwhile you record a assertion to beryllium eligible for that higher payout. If you can't beryllium circumstantial losses, you'll inactive stock successful what's near aft documented-loss claimants are paid.

How bash I cognize if I qualify?

The colony covers immoderate existent oregon erstwhile AT&T lawsuit whose information was accessed successful 1 of the breaches. If you're eligible, you'll person a announcement by email oregon carnal message from Kroll Settlement Administration.

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According to the colony website, email notices were sent to customers from the code attsettlement@e.emailksa.com. The notices started rolling retired connected Aug. 4, 2025, and are expected to proceed passim autumn. If you judge you should beryllium included successful either portion of the AT&T colony but person not received thing yet, you tin telephone the colony head astatine 833-890-4930.

How to taxable your assertion

You tin record a assertion either online oregon by mail.

Online

Go to TelecomDataSettlement.com, click "Submit Claim," and person your Class Member ID (from your notice), AT&T relationship fig (or afloat name), and an email code handy.

By message

If you don't privation to record the assertion online, you tin download and people the PDF forms for the first information breach, the second breach, oregon the overlap form if you were portion of some breaches. Print, capable out, and motion the forms, past message them to:

AT&T Data Incident Settlement
c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC
P.O. Box 5324
New York, NY 10150-5324

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Just marque definite your mailed assertion is postmarked by Dec. 18, 2025.

When is the deadline to record a claim?

Thanks to a caller deadline extension, colony claims present request to beryllium submitted by Dec. 18, 2025. 

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If you disagree with the colony and privation to opt retired truthful you tin writer AT&T yourself, you'll request to bash truthful by Nov. 17, 2025. That's besides the past time to record immoderate ceremonial objections. The last support proceeding for the projected colony is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2026.

When volition the payouts begin?

If the projected colony is approved successful January, payouts volition apt statesman sometime successful 2026, though appeals could hold the process.

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