AT&T Settlement Website: Case Status, Classes, and Payouts

The official AT&T settlement website is telecomdatasettlement.com, the court-authorized home of the $177 million class action resolving two 2024 data breaches. It is administered by Kroll Settlement Administration LLC. As of the site’s most recent update on April 23, 2026, the court has not issued a final ruling, and no payments have gone out.¹

What You Can Still Do on the Site

The claim filing deadline passed on December 18, 2025, so the online claim forms are no longer available. The site still works as the main point of contact for class members. Through the “Contact Us” feature you can reach the administration team, update your mailing address or email, and request a resend of your Class Member ID if you’ve misplaced it.¹

If you’d rather not use the website, Kroll takes calls at (833) 890-4930. Written correspondence goes to AT&T Data Incident Settlement, c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, P.O. Box 5324, New York, NY 10150-5324. The settlement notice specifically tells class members not to contact the court, the clerk, or AT&T directly about the case.²

Where the Case Stands

The settlement is in the final-approval phase. Judge Ada E. Brown of the Northern District of Texas granted preliminary approval on June 20, 2025, calling the deal “fair and reasonable.” Kroll began sending email and postcard notices to class members in August 2025. The opt-out and objection deadline fell on October 17, 2025, and the final approval hearing was held on January 15, 2026, after being moved from its original December 3, 2025 date.³¹

No distributions can occur until the court grants final approval, every appeal deadline expires, and Kroll has finished reviewing claims. The settlement agreement also gives AT&T a termination right if a specified number of class members opted out, though whether that threshold was reached has not been made public. There is no scheduled payment date.¹

What the Settlement Covers

Two separate incidents, both disclosed by AT&T in 2024, are resolved together under the formal case title In Re: AT&T Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL No. 3:24-md-03114-E.

The first, announced March 30, 2024, involved a dataset that surfaced on the dark web containing personal information of roughly 73 million people: about 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former account holders. The exposed data dated to 2019 or earlier and included Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and account passcodes.⁴

The second, disclosed July 12, 2024, involved call and text metadata downloaded from AT&T’s Snowflake cloud environment between April 14 and April 25, 2024. The affected records covered “nearly all” AT&T cellular customers and included phone numbers, interaction counts, and aggregate call durations from periods between May and October 2022 plus a short window in January 2023. The content of calls and texts was not exposed.⁵⁶

AT&T has maintained that the two incidents are unconnected and that it is not responsible for criminal acts. It agreed to the settlement “to avoid the expense and uncertainty of protracted litigation.”⁵

Who Belongs to Each Class

The AT&T 1 Class includes all living U.S. persons whose personal data appeared in the March 30, 2024 dark-web dataset. The AT&T 2 Class includes AT&T Account Owners or Line/End Users whose call and text metadata was involved in the Snowflake breach. Anyone who fell into both classes could file in both. Both classes exclude AT&T itself, its officers and directors, the presiding judge and her staff, anyone who previously released related claims, and anyone who opted out by November 17, 2025.⁷

How Payments Will Be Calculated

The $177 million fund is split into two non-reversionary pools, meaning AT&T cannot recover any unspent money. The AT&T 1 Fund holds $149 million; the AT&T 2 Fund holds $28 million. Each pool pays administrative costs, attorneys’ fees, and $1,500 service awards to the 29 AT&T 1 class representatives and seven AT&T 2 class representatives before distribution to claimants.⁷

Claimants chose between two payment types when filing. Documented loss payments reimburse out-of-pocket losses “fairly traceable” to the breaches, backed by non-self-prepared documentation such as receipts or bank statements. The cap is $5,000 for AT&T 1 and $2,500 for AT&T 2, so a person affected by both could claim up to $7,500, provided the supporting evidence for each claim was unique.²

Tier payments go to class members who did not file a documented-loss claim, distributed pro rata from what’s left in each fund. Under the AT&T 1 fund, Tier 1 claimants (those whose Social Security numbers were exposed) receive five times what Tier 2 claimants receive. Under AT&T 2, Account Owners could claim a Tier 3 share. Because the per-person amount depends on how many valid claims were filed and what’s left after deductions, no fixed figure is available yet.¹

Don’t Confuse It With These Other AT&T Settlements

Two unrelated AT&T matters are sometimes mistaken for the data breach case. If your question is about either of these, telecomdatasettlement.com is the wrong place to look.

The AT&T Mobility wireless data services sales tax litigation (MDL No. 2147) covers taxes improperly collected on mobile data services between 2005 and 2010. That settlement is final and refund checks are still being mailed as individual taxing jurisdictions process claims. Its website is attmsettlement.com.⁸

The FTC data-throttling refunds come from a 2019 agreement in which AT&T paid $60 million to resolve allegations that it slowed data speeds for customers on “unlimited” plans. Most of that money ($52 million) was distributed in 2020 as bill credits and checks, with a final round of about $6.3 million going out in April 2024 to roughly 267,000 former customers. That program is administered by JND Legal Administration, not Kroll.⁹

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CNN. AT&T Data Leak Settlement
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