AT&T to pay $13 million for 2023 customer data breach By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – AT&T (NYSE: ) agreed to pay $13 million to resolve an investigation into a January 2023 cloud provider data breach that affected 8.9 million AT&T customers, the Federal Communications Commission announced Tuesday.

The FCC said the fine will resolve its investigation into AT&T’s failure to protect its customers’ information and added that AT&T has agreed to strengthen its data governance practices to increase supply chain integrity in handling sensitive data for to protect consumers from similar data from providers. future violations.