AT&T agreed to a $177 million class action settlement to resolve claims from two 2024 data breaches that together exposed information on well over 100 million current and former customers. A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas gave the deal preliminary approval on June 20, 2025, and held a final approval hearing on January 15, 2026.1Law360. AT&T Customers’ $177M Data Breach Deal Wins Initial OK As of late April 2026, Judge Ada Brown has not issued a final ruling, the claim filing window has closed, and no payments have been distributed.2Telecom Data Settlement. AT&T Data Incident Settlement
Which Breaches the Settlement Covers
The settlement resolves claims from two separate incidents AT&T disclosed months apart.
The first, disclosed on March 30, 2024, involved a dataset posted on the dark web roughly two weeks earlier. It affected about 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former account holders, roughly 73 million people, with information that could include names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, AT&T account numbers, and account passcodes.3AT&T. Addressing Data Set Released on Dark Web
The second, disclosed in a July 12, 2024 SEC filing, involved call and text metadata stolen from a Snowflake cloud environment between April 14 and April 25, 2024. Nearly 110 million AT&T wireless customers were affected. The stolen records covered a six-month window ending October 31, 2022, plus a subset from January 2, 2023, and included the phone numbers customers communicated with, counts of those interactions, and aggregate call durations. Call and text content, names, and other identifying details were not included.4Cybersecurity Dive. AT&T Cyberattack Snowflake Environment
People affected by both breaches qualify as “overlap” class members and can collect from both funds.5Yahoo Finance. AT&T Data Breach Class Action Settlement
How the Money Is Divided
The $177 million is split into two funds, one for each breach. AT&T did not admit any liability and has said it settled to avoid the cost and uncertainty of continued litigation.6Time. AT&T Data Breach Settlement How to File a Claim
The AT&T 1 Fund holds $149 million for people caught in the dark web breach. Claimants whose Social Security numbers were exposed are in Tier 1 and receive five times what Tier 2 claimants receive. As an alternative, a claimant can submit documentation of actual losses suffered since 2019 and seek reimbursement of up to $5,000.2Telecom Data Settlement. AT&T Data Incident Settlement
The AT&T 2 Fund holds $28 million for customers hit by the Snowflake breach. Account owners can take a pro rata share of the net fund or, alternatively, submit documentation of losses occurring on or after April 14, 2024, for up to $2,500.2Telecom Data Settlement. AT&T Data Incident Settlement Overlap class members can collect from both funds for a combined maximum of $7,500.5Yahoo Finance. AT&T Data Breach Class Action Settlement
Final per-person amounts are not fixed. The funds are distributed pro rata after administrative costs and attorney fees come out, so the more valid claims filed, the smaller each share.
Attorney Fees
Class counsel requested $59 million in fees, roughly a third of the total settlement. The Lanier Law Firm sought $49.67 million and Kopelowitz Ostrow Ferguson Weiselberg Gilbert sought $9.33 million. Judge Brown has not yet ruled on the fee request.7Greenwich Time. AT&T Data Breach Settlement Attorney Fees Whatever the court awards will be deducted from the funds before pro rata shares are calculated.
Where Things Stand Now
Kroll Settlement Administration LLC is running the claims process through telecomdatasettlement.com and a phone line at 833-890-4930.8Desert Sun. Deadline to File Claim AT&T Data Breach Kroll Settlement The deadline to file a claim was December 18, 2025, and claim forms are no longer available on the site.2Telecom Data Settlement. AT&T Data Incident Settlement The deadline to opt out of or object to the settlement was October 17, 2025.
The final approval hearing took place on January 15, 2026. As of the settlement website’s April 23, 2026 update, Judge Brown has not issued a final approval ruling, and Kroll is reviewing and processing the claims already submitted.2Telecom Data Settlement. AT&T Data Incident Settlement Payments cannot go out until the court grants final approval and the time to appeal that ruling expires. The administrator has directed class members to watch the official site for distribution updates.9Newsweek. AT&T Settlement Update Payout Data Breach Lawsuit
One caveat sits in the preliminary approval order: AT&T can walk away from the deal if more than a certain number of class members opted out. The threshold was not made public.10U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Preliminary Approval Order
If You Missed the Claim Deadline
Class members who did not file a claim by December 18, 2025 will not receive a payment from either fund. Those who also did not opt out by October 17, 2025 remain bound by the settlement’s release of claims once it becomes final, meaning they cannot separately sue AT&T over the same breaches. Related AT&T claims in the parallel Snowflake litigation in the District of Montana (MDL No. 3126) were largely stayed after preliminary approval, because the settlement bars class members from pursuing overlapping cases while the deal moves toward a final ruling.11Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. MDL 3126 Order Denying Remand
If you did file, the practical next step is to keep the class member ID and confirmation from your submission, watch the settlement website for the final approval ruling and a distribution date, and update your contact information with Kroll if it changes before checks or electronic payments are issued.