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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I have been stalked and harassed and over $70, 000 taken out of my accounts and ive called AT&T to stop the hacking and invasion of privacy and they refer to Apple- I know I have been working with a senior advisor but I have had over 50 debit cards compromised and every one of my business institutions have been corrupted and I’ve been continuously frauded, even the money deemed frauds that was supposed to get back to me was frauded again- and forget about calling th company because when I do I get someone impersonated Chime Ally, or anyone else I do business with and they keep getting my information we try to most of the time it’s happened so much- I swear I recognize all of there voices and just hang up and try and try again. This is sick and they bled me dry including refusing to allow me to get any phone calls in. It’s like being stuck in a prison and they won’t let you speak to anyone outside- if you do they hang up on you and you never get a call back?? Why isn’t this getting fixed? My privacy is out there am for who knows to see and the amount of info on the dark web is horrendous- all my info is out there and to top it off…. With the hacking AT&T allowed they drained all this money and AT&T shut off my phone so I wasn’t able to look for a new job after I moved from Washington to Louisiana and they didn’t even care when I called them and told them. But went ahead and shut everything off so I had no kind of service and no pay phones either. Thank god for my mom or I would be homeless and no way to contact family for help. And all my money continues to be stolen till this day. I can’t pay my bills cause I am consistently locked out of my accounts and they even stole my child’s child support, every penny and now I have to fight keeping my jeep, so good luck right- yet AT&T isn’t fixing nothing
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I was affected by this tremendously…the hackers even took out 2 Lines I’m another state under my name!?? How can I get help for this? Thus has affected my credit by about 100 pts and I need that outstanding debt expunged, in addition to giving me back my credit score. Thanks
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