AT&T Agrees to Pay $13 Million FCC Fine For Cloud Data Leak
The US Federal Communications Commission said that AT&T Inc. failed to secure the data shared with the vendor and didn’t ensure that the company deleted or returned the information as it was contractually required to do.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/BloombergAT&T Inc. agreed to pay $13 million to settle an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission into whether the telecommunications company failed to protect customer data that was stolen when a cloud vendor was hacked last year.
The unnamed vendor experienced a data breach in early 2023 that exposed the information of nearly 9 million AT&T Mobility customers. The data included subscriber information from 2015 to 2017 — such as the number of phone lines associated with a particular account — but not sensitive personal information like Social Security or credit card numbers, AT&T said.