 AT&T data breach overview:
- Who: Plaintiffs Dina Winger, Richard Olivieri, Lauren Woon and Chris Schulte filed AT&TÂ class action lawsuits.
- Why: They allege AT&T’s failure to safeguard sensitive customer data adequately contributed to nearly 110 million wireless customers’ call and text information being compromised.
- Where: The AT&T class action lawsuits were filed in Texas, Montana and New Jersey federal courts.
Three AT&T class actions allege the telecommunications company failed to adequately protect its wireless customers’ information. That failure allegedly left the company vulnerable to hackers who accessed its systems beginning in May 2022.
Plaintiffs Dina Winger, Richard Olivieri, Lauren Woon and Chris Schulte filed the AT&T class actions in Texas, Montana, and New Jersey federal courts after AT&T disclosed that hackers downloaded phone and text message records from almost all of its 110 million wireless customers.
The AT&T data breach class action lawsuit was confirmed in a July 12 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing and by a post on the telecom company’s website.
A hacker reportedly accessed an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform. That enabled the hacker to obtain call records of customer call and text communications occurring from May 1 and Oct. 31, 2022 and on Jan. 2, 2023.
AT&T class actions say company knew data was vulnerable yet failed to protect it
The plaintiffs allege AT&T knew their data was valuable to cybercriminals. Despite that knowledge, the company failed to implement adequate security measures to protect their personally identifiable information (PII).
“Plaintiff and other data breach victims provided their PII to AT&T with the reasonable expectations and mutual understanding that AT&T would comply with its obligations to keep such information confidential and secure from unauthorized access,” Winger said in her AT&T data breach class action lawsuit.
She says AT&T data breach victims are now at risk of identity theft and exploitation.
In a statement on its website, AT&T says the compromised information does not include the content of call or text communications or PII. The company does not believe the stolen data is publicly available.
Other AT&T class actions were filed over a separate data breach affecting more than 70 million customers.
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Winger is represented by Patrick Yarborough of Foster Yarborough PLLC, David J. George and Lori Feldman of George Feldman McDonald PLLC and Ori Raphael and Damon Mathias of Mathias Raphael PLLC. Oliveri and Woon are represented by William A. Rossbach of Rossbach Law PC; Thomas E. Loeser and Karin B. Swope of Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP; Ryan J. Clarkson, Yana Hart and Tiara Avaness of Clarkson Law Firm PC and Timothy G. Blood and Jennifer L. MacPherson of Blood Hurst & O’Reardon LLP. Schulte is represented by Serina M. Vash and John C. Herman of Herman Jones LLP.
The AT&T class actions are Dina Winger v. AT&T Inc., Case No. 3:24-cv-001797, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas; Richard Olivieri, et al. v. AT&T Inc., et al., Case No. 2:24-cv-00056, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana and Chris Schulte v. AT&T Inc., et al., Case No. 3:24-cv-07818, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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636 thoughts onConsumers file AT&T class actions following massive data breach
Add me please I have the email all numbers on account were affected by this. I have been with att for 14 years
My social security number has been leaked by them and is now on the dark web, I was told that there is nothing A T & T monitoring service by Experian can do. I am outraged that this has happened people information are not safe with these companies anymore.
I received an email from AT&T telling me that all 12 phone numbers that were on my account had been compromised. How do I join in this lawsuit?
I got my information leaked and receiving a lot of scam calls, texts, emails.
I purchase a flip phone and bill when I receive it also have person that purchase a I phone we both had the same account, I ask why and explain I didn’t purchase an iPhone only my flip phone I don’t go to Birmingham
I was called a lier and ask to leave the story I said take the flip back we are finish I was showed the door and they wasn’t going to take the phone back I have proof and checks from the other person which att since my copy’s…
I received an email, dated 7/17/2024, from AT&T, stating that my 2 phone account information had been compromised in a data breach. I would like to be added to an AT&T class action law suit.
I was notified that my personal information was compromised by mail. Letter sent to me by AT&T .
I feel there’s something still going on with AT&T. I barely got any data speed. And if course the local store says it the smoke (wildfires) in the air. I keep going over my Bill cause it keeps getting higher and higher.
When I signed up them , they said “Free phone” guess what? Im stuck paying for a phone which was already out dated by a year with contract with them. If quit paying then it’ll go against my credit.
They are liars and paper hiding thieves.
The same thing happened to me two years ago doing Christmas doing a promotion I’m paying for my free Phone today. Something needs to be done about att.
How do I file a claim on this
AT&T sent me a text message stating that my data was illegally downloaded that included my phone numbers to all my phone calls & text messages.