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AT&T's $177 Million Privacy Settlement: How You Can Claim Your Share
Two recent AT&T data breaches impacted the privacy of nearly 200 million people. Kevin Carter/Getty Image AT&T has been involved in two of the biggest data breaches in recent history, and it's almost time for its customers to get some compensation. On June 20, US District Judge Ada E. Brown preliminarily approved a $177 million settlement of a class-action privacy lawsuit against AT&T. The suit arose from two massive data breaches revealed in 2024. The settlement administration began accepting claims from affected customers on Aug. 4. The proposed legal settlement for the two AT&T breaches divides claimants into two distinct classes, although people affected by both breaches can file a claim for both. If you were affected and want to file a claim for compensation, you'll need to act by Nov. 18, 2025, or get left out. Read on to learn more about the gigantic AT&T legal settlement -- including how to file a claim and how much money you might receive -- and the data breaches that led to it. What were these data breaches that prompted the lawsuits against AT&T? The two data breaches related to AT&T's current $177 million settlement occurred in 2019 and 2024, although the company didn't acknowledge the 2019 breach until March 2024, weeks after it detected customer data spreading on the dark web. The 2019 breach involved personal data including Social Security numbers, birth dates and legal names, and it affected 7.6 million current AT&T customers and 65.4 million former account holders. Soon after the disclosure, AT&T took the dramatic step of resetting passwords for all current customers who were included in the breach. The second data breach covered by the legal settlement happened soon after the disclosure of the first. In April 2024, hackers accessed phone records from 2022 for nearly all of AT&T's US customers (about 109 million) from Snowflake, the company's cloud-based data warehouse. AT&T disclosed the breach in July 2024. Associates of the hacker group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for similar Snowflake attacks on about 165 companies in mid-2024. Two people were eventually arrested for the AT&T hack. A rash of lawsuits for both data breaches were filed after both of AT&T's disclosures and were consolidated soon after. All parties in both of the breach lawsuits agreed to a settlement in March 2025. The class affected by "AT&T 1 Data Incident" (the 2019 breach) will receive a $149 million payout in the proposed settlement, while the class included in "AT&T 2 Data Incident" (the 2024 Snowflake breach) will receive $28 million. How can people file a claim for part of the AT&T settlement? Kroll Settlement Administration, the organization managing AT&T's legal settlement, has created a website at where eligible class members can file claims for compensation. To file a claim for part of the settlement, you'll need to have a "Class Member ID," which should have come in a notification from Kroll, most likely by email. If you cannot find the email, be sure to check your spam folder or other email filters. You'll need to retrieve your Class Member ID from the notification you received, or else call the administrators to get an ID. Kroll Settlement Administration/Screenshot by CNET If you believe you should be included in either part of the AT&T settlement and did not receive a notification, or if you're not sure if you're included, you can call the settlement administrator at 833-890-4930, or write to it at AT&T Data Incident Settlement; c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC; P.O. Box 5324; New York, NY 10150-5324. Once you have a Claim Member ID from Kroll, you can complete the filing forms, including any documented information about losses you experienced due to either breach or both. Traffic to the website for the AT&T settlement has been metered. I recently checked the claim submission form and received a Cloudflare warning: "We are experiencing a high volume of traffic and using a virtual queue to limit the amount of users on the website at the same time." I had to wait 2 minutes to get in. If you don't want to submit a claim online, you can also print and mail the settlement forms (all PDFs): claim for the 2019 breach; claim for the 2024 Snowflake breach; claim for people affected by both breaches. Mailed forms should be sent to the Kroll address above and postmarked by the same Nov. 18, 2025, deadline. Maximum payouts for the AT&T privacy settlement How much could victims receive if they were included in one or both of the specific AT&T data breaches? Many payouts will be ultimately based on the number of people who file claims, but we have some estimates from the terms of the settlement. People affected by the 2019 data breach who can prove a "documented loss" can receive up to $5,000. If someone cannot prove that loss, they'll receive one of two tiered cash payments, based on whether or not their Social Security number was included in the breach. For the Snowflake breach of 2024, AT&T customers who were affected and can prove that same demonstrated loss with documentation can receive up to $2,500. Those who were affected but have no proof of loss will receive a "pro rata" share of the remaining money, meaning it will be divided up evenly among them. Those affected by both the 2019 and 2024 data breaches can file claims for both classes. While it's not entirely clear yet if someone with two demonstrated losses could receive the full amount of $7,500, there's nothing in the language of the settlement site that says they couldn't.
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Benny Johnson asks Karoline Leavitt if Trump would 'consider giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to ‘Big Balls.''
Benny Johnson, a popular online MAGA personality, floated the idea of awarding Edward 'Big Balls' Coristine, a 19-year-old former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who was allegedly assaulted by juvenile suspects in a recent attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the White House press briefing on Tuesday. 'Given the heroic actions of a member of this administration just a few blocks from this building, will the president consider giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 'Big Balls?'' Johnson asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during the briefing. Johnson was given the briefing invite as part of the White House press office's 'new media' seat initiative to give more right-wing influencers and journalists prominent seats and opportunities to ask questions during the briefings. 'I haven't spoken to him about that, but perhaps it's something he would consider,' Leavitt replied. 'I'll ask him and get back to you, Benny. Thanks for being here.' Last week, President Trump posted a photo of Coristine apparently taken after the attempted carjacking, showing him sitting up on the ground, shirtless, with his face, chest, and pants stained with what appeared to be blood. 'Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control,' Trump claimed in the post, and suggested that minors involved in such crimes should be prosecuted as adults. The suspects in the Coristine incident are underage. 'The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14,' the president said.
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Don Jr says his family got into crypto after banks refused to do business after Jan 6 ‘nonsense'
Donald Trump Jr. says his family 'didn't have a choice' but to get into crypto because banks didn't want to do business with them after January 6, 2021, referring to the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol as 'all the nonsense.' 'We got into crypto because we didn't have a choice,' the president's eldest son said on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning while discussing his family's cryptocurrency business's $1.5 billion digital coin deal. The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Finance, announced Monday that technology firm ALT5 Sigma would make a big purchase of its digital coin, $WLFI. ALT5 said it would sell $1.5 billion worth of shares, then use that money to purchase the Trump signature digital coin, which the family founded last year. 'Every major banking institution, the people that, two weeks before we were debanked, we could've called and gotten a loan in five seconds. They disappeared. We were left high and dry,' he said. 'Basically, during the first term, certainly after the…let's call it January 6… all the nonsense, it got significantly worse,' he said, referring to the deadly mob of his father's supporters who stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Five people, including one police officer, died and several more were injured when the pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol building. The president granted roughly 1,500 people convicted of January 6-related crimes pardons immediately after taking office in January. 'We weren't even early crypto guys, but we figured, if they can debank the Trump Organization, if they can debank us, who can't they go after? And more importantly, who won't they go after?' he continued. Trump Jr. said that instead of going home and 'go cry in a corner,' they decided to launch World Liberty Financial, which he described as the future of banking. 'What we're doing with World Liberty Financial, I think, is going to shake up the entire banking system. It is literally the future of finance,' he said. Joining Trump Jr. on the segment was his brother, Eric Trump, and World Liberty Financial's co-founder and CEO Zach Witkoff, who said they were looking to 'democratize' the financial system. 'Put power back in the hands of the people, instead of the big boogy man behind the curtain,' Witkoff said. Following the Fox appearance, the three men went to ring Nasdaq's opening bell to celebrate the closing of ALT5's $1.5 billion offering. Sign in to access your portfolio
