AT&T customer billing data leaked from third-party cloud vendor
In 2023, customer billing information that AT&T had provided to a third-party vendor was leaked through a breach of that vendor's cloud. In September 2024, AT&T agreed to pay $13 million in connection with the US Federal Communications Commission investigation into the incident and pledged to improve security.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- AT&T
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Customer billing information
- Cause / method
- Breach of the cloud of a third-party vendor that received customer information
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- AT&T agreed to pay $13 million in connection with the US Federal Communications Commission investigation into a 2023 third-party vendor data breach.
- AT&T pledged to improve security in connection with the data breach.
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