The AT&T 1 settlement class covers people whose personal information was exposed in the data breach AT&T announced on March 30, 2024, when a data set with names, Social Security numbers, and account details appeared on the dark web. If you’re in this class, you can claim up to $5,000 for documented losses plus a tier payment from a $149 million fund set aside for AT&T 1 claimants. No money has gone out yet. Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas held the final approval hearing on January 15, 2026, and as of April 23, 2026 had not ruled.
Who Qualifies as an AT&T 1 Class Member
The class includes all living people in the United States whose personal data was part of what the settlement calls the AT&T 1 Data Incident, the breach disclosed on March 30, 2024. The data elements at issue are names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, account passcodes, billing account numbers, and Social Security numbers.
You are not in the class if you opted out by the October 17, 2025 deadline, if you previously released claims tied to this breach, or if you are AT&T itself, one of its officers, directors, or subsidiaries, or court personnel on the case.
What Happened in the March 2024 Breach
AT&T acknowledged on March 30, 2024 that a data set containing customer information had been released on the dark web. The breach affected about 73 million people: roughly 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders. AT&T said the data appeared to date from 2019 or earlier.
The exposed information included full names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, AT&T account numbers, and account passcodes. After a security researcher confirmed that passcodes in the leaked archive worked, AT&T forced a password reset for its 7.6 million active customers.
AT&T initially denied that the data came from its own systems. A hacker group called ShinyHunters had tried to auction a database of more than 70 million AT&T accounts as early as 2021. In March 2024, an actor going by MajorNelson posted what appeared to be the same data set for free on a hacking forum. AT&T said it had no evidence of unauthorized access to its systems and could not confirm whether the data came from AT&T directly or from one of its vendors.
What You Can Claim
The $149 million AT&T 1 fund pays two kinds of cash benefits.
The first is a documented loss payment of up to $5,000 per person. To get it, you have to show losses that are “fairly traceable” to the AT&T 1 breach and that occurred in 2019 or later, with documentation of actual out-of-pocket expenses or financial harm.
The second is a tier payment, which is a pro rata share of whatever is left in the fund after documented losses, administrative costs, and attorney fees are paid. Tier 1 payments go to class members whose Social Security numbers were exposed, and they are set at five times the Tier 2 amount. Tier 2 payments go to class members whose other data elements were exposed but whose Social Security numbers were not. The final dollar figures depend on how many valid claims were filed and what remains in the fund, and those numbers are not yet known.
Class counsel has asked the court for $59 million in attorney fees, roughly a third of the total $177 million settlement fund. The court has not ruled on that request.
If You Were Affected by Both Breaches
The $177 million settlement also covers a separate breach AT&T disclosed on July 12, 2024, involving call and text metadata for nearly 110 million wireless customers stolen from AT&T’s workspace on the Snowflake cloud platform. That incident is handled through the AT&T 2 class, which draws from a separate $28 million fund. The AT&T 2 breach did not expose names, Social Security numbers, or financial information, only phone numbers contacted, interaction counts, aggregate call durations, and in some cases cell-site identifiers.
People whose data was caught up in both incidents can qualify as overlap class members and claim from both funds, with a theoretical combined maximum of $7,500.
Deadlines and Current Status
The settlement administrator, Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, sent notice to class members by email and postcard in August 2025 and set up a website at telecomdatasettlement.com. The opt-out and objection deadline was October 17, 2025. The claim filing deadline, originally November 18, 2025, was extended by one month to December 18, 2025. If you did not file by then, you can no longer submit a claim.
Judge Brown held the final approval hearing on January 15, 2026. As of an April 23, 2026 update on the settlement website, the court had not decided whether to approve the settlement, and no timeline for a decision had been given. Kroll is reviewing and processing claims in the meantime. Payments will only go out if the settlement is approved and the time for all appeals has run.
Separately from the settlement, AT&T offered affected customers one year of free identity theft and credit monitoring through Experian’s IdentityWorks program, which included credit file monitoring, identity restoration support, and up to $1 million in identity theft insurance. Enrollment closed on August 30, 2024.