The AT&T class action lawsuit settlement is a $177 million deal resolving claims from two data breaches AT&T disclosed in 2024. A federal judge in Texas held the final approval hearing on January 15, 2026, but as of April 23, 2026, no ruling had been issued and no payments had been distributed. The deadline to file a claim, December 18, 2025, has already passed.
What the Settlement Covers
Two separate incidents are folded into this one settlement, and eligibility depends on which one touched your information.
The first is the March 2024 dark web release. AT&T announced on March 30, 2024, that a dataset containing customer information from 2019 or earlier had surfaced online. It included names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, AT&T account numbers, and account passcodes. Roughly 73 million people were affected: 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former ones.1KCRA. AT&T Data Breach Settlement: How To Claim Money
The second is the July 2024 Snowflake breach. Threat actors downloaded call and text metadata from an AT&T workspace hosted on the third-party cloud platform Snowflake. The stolen records covered May through October 2022, plus a small subset from January 2, 2023. They included phone numbers of current and former customers, the numbers they communicated with, interaction counts, aggregate call durations, and for some users, cell-site identification numbers. The content of calls and texts was not taken, and neither were Social Security numbers or dates of birth.2Telecom Data Settlement. Official Settlement Website The breach affected nearly all AT&T wireless customers, plus customers of mobile virtual network operators running on AT&T’s network and some wireline customers.3Panorays. AT&T Data Breach: What Happened
The consolidated case, In re AT&T Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, sits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas before Judge Ada E. Brown under case number 3:24-md-03114-E. AT&T did not admit liability.4U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. MDL 3:24-md-03114
Who Qualifies and How Much You Can Get
The $177 million is split into two non-reversionary funds. Unclaimed money does not go back to AT&T.5U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Preliminary Approval Order
The AT&T 1 Fund: $149 Million (March 2024 Breach)
If your personal information was part of the March 2024 dark web release, you fall into one of two tiers. Tier 1 covers people whose Social Security number was exposed and pays a pro rata share worth five times the Tier 2 amount. Tier 2 covers everyone else in that breach. Anyone in either tier who can document financial losses traceable to the breach can claim up to $5,000 instead of the pro rata amount.6CCH. Class Action Settlement Agreement and Release
The AT&T 2 Fund: $28 Million (July 2024 Snowflake Breach)
If you were an account owner or authorized line user whose call and text metadata was part of the Snowflake breach, you qualify for a pro rata payment (Tier 3) or, with documentation of financial losses tied to the breach, up to $2,500.6CCH. Class Action Settlement Agreement and Release
If You Were In Both Breaches
People affected by both incidents, called “overlap settlement class members,” could file separate claims against each fund. The theoretical combined maximum is $7,500.7Citizen-Times. How Much Will Each Customer Get From AT&T Settlement
Real per-person payouts will be well below those caps. About 4.38 million claims were submitted, and each pro rata share is calculated by dividing the fund (after fees and costs) across all valid claims in that tier.8Bright Defense. AT&T Data Breach Class representatives are each eligible for $1,500 service awards.5U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Preliminary Approval Order
Is It Too Late To File a Claim?
Yes. The claim deadline was December 18, 2025, and it passed without extension. The deadline to opt out or object was earlier still, October 17, 2025.5U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Preliminary Approval Order9NBC Connecticut. AT&T Data Breach Settlement Deadline
Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, the court-appointed administrator, sent notice to class members by email and postcard starting in August 2025. Claims went in through telecomdatasettlement.com or by mail. Filers needed a class member ID, an email address, an AT&T account number, or their full name to verify eligibility, and anyone seeking documented loss payments had to submit evidence tying the losses to the specific breach.9NBC Connecticut. AT&T Data Breach Settlement Deadline
If you did not file, you cannot receive a payment from this settlement. You also cannot opt out anymore, which means if the court approves the deal, you remain bound by its release of claims against AT&T for these two breaches.
When Payments Will Arrive
Not yet, and there is no confirmed date. Judge Brown held the final approval hearing on January 15, 2026.4U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. MDL 3:24-md-03114 As of April 23, 2026, the most recent update on the official settlement website, the court had not ruled on whether to approve the settlement.2Telecom Data Settlement. Official Settlement Website
Kroll is reviewing and processing the roughly 4.38 million submitted claims in the meantime. No money can be distributed until final approval is granted and the window for appeals has closed.8Bright Defense. AT&T Data Breach An AT&T spokesperson had earlier suggested payments would come “early” in 2026, but that timing now depends entirely on when the judge rules.10The Hill. $177M AT&T Settlement Deadline Nears
If you want to track progress, the official website at telecomdatasettlement.com is the source Kroll updates. Your claim confirmation, if you filed, is tied to the class member ID or account information you submitted.
What the Lawyers Are Getting
Class counsel asked for roughly $59 million in fees combined, about one-third of the settlement. The Lanier Law Firm, led by W. Mark Lanier, requested about $49.67 million in fees plus up to $564,792 in costs from the AT&T 1 fund. Kopelowitz Ostrow Ferguson Weiselberg Gilbert, led by Jeff Ostrow, requested about $9.33 million in fees plus up to $231,438 in costs from the AT&T 2 fund.11Greenwich Time. AT&T Data Breach Settlement Attorney Fees Those fees and costs come out of the settlement funds before pro rata payments are calculated, which is a large part of why individual payouts sit well below the advertised caps.
Other AT&T Cases That Are Not This Settlement
Two other AT&T actions get mixed up with this settlement and are worth separating out.
The FCC’s $13 million consent decree, announced in September 2024, resolved a January 2023 breach in which threat actors accessed a vendor’s cloud environment and exposed data on nearly 8.9 million AT&T Mobility customers, including billing details, line counts, and rate plan information. That is a distinct 2023 incident, not one of the 2024 breaches in this class action, and the money went to the government under the consent decree, not to customers.12FCC. FCC Consent Decree DA-24-89213FCC. FCC Settles AT&T Vendor Cloud Breach
The FTC’s $60 million settlement over throttled “unlimited” data plans is older still. AT&T issued $52 million in refunds in 2020, and the FTC distributed an additional $6.3 million in April 2024 to former customers who filed valid claims. That case involved consumer deception, not a data breach.14FTC. AT&T Data Throttling Refunds
Neither one pays out under the $177 million class action, and eligibility for one does not carry over to the other.