Yes, telecomdatasettlement.com is legitimate. It is the court-authorized claims website for the $177 million AT&T data breach class action, In re: AT&T Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, pending before Judge Ada E. Brown in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The site is run by Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, a claims administrator that has processed more than 100 million claims across over 4,000 settlements. The court’s preliminary approval order on June 20, 2025, authorized Kroll to send notices directing class members to this exact domain.
The site itself says it is “authorized by the Court, supervised by counsel to the Parties, and controlled by the Settlement Administrator approved by the Court” and is “the only authorized website for this case.” NBC, CBS, ABC affiliates, and PCMag have independently identified it as the real claim portal.
How to Confirm a Notice You Received Is Real
Three details separate the genuine settlement from the imposters:
- The only official website is telecomdatasettlement.com. Short, clean domain, no extra words.
- The only official notification email address is attsettlement@e.emailksa.com.
- Kroll’s phone line, (833) 890-4930, will confirm whether you are a class member and the status of a claim.
The real claim form asks for a Class Member ID along with an email address, AT&T account number, or full name. It does not ask for a Social Security number or bank login credentials through a generic email form. If something you received is pushing you toward either, it isn’t from Kroll.
What the Scam Versions Look Like
Scammers have actively exploited this case. The common patterns are lookalike URLs that are longer, slightly misspelled, or oddly structured versions of the real address, and phishing emails that mimic settlement notices but ask for Social Security numbers or banking details. Any email or text pointing you to a domain other than telecomdatasettlement.com is not from the settlement administrator, regardless of how official the message looks.
What the Settlement Covers
The case consolidates lawsuits over two AT&T data breaches disclosed in 2024. AT&T agreed to the combined $177 million settlement in March 2025 without admitting wrongdoing.
The first breach, announced March 30, 2024, involved customer data that surfaced on the dark web. It affected about 73 million people, including 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former account holders. Exposed information included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, account passcodes, and billing account numbers.
The second breach, disclosed July 12, 2024, involved call and text records downloaded from an AT&T workspace on the Snowflake cloud platform. It affected call and text metadata for nearly all AT&T wireless customers for the period from May through October 2022, plus a small number of records from January 2, 2023. The stolen data covered phone numbers, interaction counts, and aggregate call durations, but not the content of calls or texts. A small subset of records also included cell site identification numbers that can approximate a user’s location.
Where Claims Stand Now
The filing deadline, originally November 18 and then extended to December 18, 2025, has passed. About 4.38 million people filed claims, a roughly 4.8 percent claims rate among the nearly 100 million eligible customers.
Judge Brown held a final approval hearing on January 15, 2026, and has not yet ruled. As of the settlement site’s last update on April 23, 2026, Kroll is still reviewing and processing claims. No payments have gone out. Distribution can begin only after the court grants final approval, any appeal window closes, and claims review is complete. There is no public timeline for the ruling.
Not the Same as the FTC Throttling Refund
A separate AT&T matter sometimes gets confused with this one. The Federal Trade Commission sued AT&T over throttling the speeds of customers on “unlimited” plans, and AT&T paid $60 million to settle. The FTC distributed roughly $6.3 million in refunds to former customers in April 2024, with its own administrator reachable at 1-877-654-1982. That case has nothing to do with the data breach settlement, and telecomdatasettlement.com has no role in it.