AT&T will shell out almost $200 million to people hit by last year's data breaches
Up to $5,000 for severe cases
AT&T is paying the price for a string of major data breaches exposed last year, with a U.S. District Court approving a $177 million class-action settlement tied to the exposure of personal data from tens of millions of customers (Source: PhoneArena). The decision, issued Friday by Judge Ada Brown in Dallas, caps a turbulent chapter for the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier — though it’s far from the only telecoms giant to face such a reckoning in recent memory.
