These are the final hours for you to file a valid claim to receive compensation for this data breach settlement. With digital technology improving year on year and more systems moving online, it has also subsequently led to a rise in cybercrime, whereby unauthorized third parties attempt to gain access to sensitive information such as financial and identification details. As such, it is important that entities that store client data take advanced precautions to ensure that their clients’ information is not compromised.
These companies are liable to pay a data breach settlement
When large companies and entities handle sensitive client information, they have an obligation to ensure that this data is not compromised or hacked in a data leak. While not all data breaches are preventable, especially considering the rise in sophisticated and novel methods to bypass cybersecurity measures, companies must still ensure that they have taken advanced precautions to prevent this from occurring as far as possible.
In the event that client data does become compromised and there is reasonable doubt that the entity did not take on as many security measures as they could have to prevent this from occurring, it can result in large class action lawsuits submitted by affected clients, meaning these companies can become liable to pay a data breach settlement for those users you claim compensaton for the damages incurred by the data breach.
While class action lawsuits do garner a reputation for users with a valid claim receiving compensation worth thousands of dollars as a result of these data breach settlements, it is rarely the case that these claims result in a profit for class action members. Generally, the higher the compensation amount, the higher the affected users had to pay out-of-pocket to address their sensitive information being compromised.
Claim your share of a $117 million data breach settlement
Recently, AT&T agreed to a $117 million data breach settlement over allegations that the company failed to prevent two data breaches that occurred in 2019 and 2024 that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers.
The two breaches involved the following:
- In 2019, personal client data, including Social Security numbers, was compromised for 7.6 million current AT&T customers and 65.4 million former account holders. The breach was not acknowledged by the company until March 2024.
- In April 2024, cybercriminals gained access to 2022 phone records for nearly all 109 million American AT&T users.
If you were affected by the 2019 data breach, you can claim up to $5,000 in compensation for documented losses. If you were affected by the 2024 data breach, you can claim up to $2,500 in compensation, also for documented losses. Class members part of the data breach settlement who do not claim for documented losses will receive a pro rata payment. Users have until December 18, 2025, to submit their valid claim. Yesterday, November 17, 2025, was your final chance to object to the terms of the settlement.
Data breach settlement litigations grow in frequency
Cybersecurity remains a growing problem for users, with this month alone seeing multiple data breach litigations settled among plaintiffs and defendants. While most, if not all, of these companies do not admit to any wrongdoing, the compensation ensures that they are able to cover legal and other expenses associated with their sensitive information being compromised.
While many of these data breach settlements result in large compensation payments if the damages are significant, other settlements are not always particularly high and are filed more to ensure that the company is held accountable for its actions and changes its policies going forward in order to prevent such a breach occuring again. Whether or not the damages were significant or not, these class action lawsuits highlight inadequte cybersecurity practices and act as an example to other large entities what not to do to protect client data.
Disclaimer: You should not submit false or inflated claims under penalty of perjury, as class‑action claim forms historically required declarations signed “under penalty of perjury” to ensure authenticity. Submitting a fraudulent claim not only carries legal exposure—including potential civil and criminal sanctions—but also harms other eligible class members by diluting the available settlement pool.
