AT&T to pay $13 million over 2023 customer data breach

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T (NYSE:T ) has agreed to pay $13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023 that impacted 8.9 million AT&T customers, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

The FCC said the fine will resolve its investigation over whether AT&T had failed to protect the information of its customers and added AT&T had agreed to boost its data governance practices to increase supply chain integrity in the handling of sensitive data to protect consumers from similar vendor data breaches in the future.

Source: Investing.com