AT&T Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit

AT&T is in the process of sending out direct notices to current and former customers affected by the data breach.  If you received a notice like the one below, letting you know that you were affected, contact our law firm for a free, confidential evaluation of your claims.

The notice provides details of the types of personal information compromised in the breach, including Social Security numbers, birthdays, account passcodes, full names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers. AT&T specifies that the affected data was from 4 years ago and prior.

Here is the full data breach notice AT&T sent out to some customers. In our opinion, AT&T is not doing enough to help its customers.

We take cybersecurity very seriously and privacy is a fundamental commitment at AT&T.

We have discovered that your AT&T account passcode has been compromised, therefore we have proactively reset your passcode.

Our internal teams are working with external cybersecurity experts to analyze the situation. It appears the data is from more than 4 years ago and does not contain personal financial information or call history.

What information was involved?
The information varied by customer and account, but may have included full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode.

If your sensitive personal information was compromised, we will provide complimentary identity theft and credit monitoring services.

What is AT&T doing?
We’ve taken precautionary measures and reset your passcode, which is an extra layer of protection for your account. When you sign in to your online account or call customer care, we’ll provide details to help you personalize your passcode.

What can you do?
In addition to resetting your AT&T passcode, we encourage customers to remain vigilant by monitoring account activity and credit reports. You can set up free fraud alerts from nationwide credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. You can also request and review your free credit report at any time via Freecreditreport.com.

More Information
Visit www.att.com/accountsafety for more information and updates.

We apologize this has happened and are committed to keeping your account secure.

AT&T

At the end of March 2024, AT&T  acknowledged that over 70 million of its current and former customers’ personal data was found on the “dark web.” AT&T has begun notifying millions of customers who are affected by this massive data breach. Additionally, the company said it has already reset the passcodes of current users and will be communicating with account holders whose sensitive personal information was compromised.

 

This is not AT&T’s first security breach. According to CBS news, AT&T experienced a separate data leak in January 2023, “affecting 9 million users.” The most recent data breach is larger, affecting 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former AT&T users, reports CBS News.

AT&T says if you’ve started using AT&T before or during 2019, your data may be compromised. While AT&T has provided minimal details, Gibbs Law Group will continue to investigate exactly who was affected and what data was taken.

Gibbs Law Group’s class action lawsuit against AT&T, filed on April 6, 2024, is seeking compensation for the data breach victims and demanding that AT&T to fix its apparently ineffective information security systems to protect the data from future data breaches.

 

Our data breach attorneys have extraordinary experience and expertise in this area. Gibbs Law Group partner David Berger was appointed co-lead counsel to fight for over 10 million MGM customers whose information was stolen in a similar data breach in 2020.

David Berger represents consumers in class action lawsuits with a special emphasis on data breach, privacy, and financial services litigation. He previously represented consumers in a data breach lawsuit against Equifax, resulting in a historic $1.5 billion settlement on behalf of 147 million consumers whose Social Security numbers and other private data were exposed in a 2017 breach.

David has represented consumers in some of the largest and most influential privacy and data breach cases in the country and has repeatedly attained settlements that set the record for the largest data breach settlement in history.  He frequently speaks at conferences on data breach cases and other class action topics. David is a former Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Consumer Privacy and Data Breach Litigation Group.