AT&T settlement payouts are set to start soon. Who may qualify for as much as $7,500?

The Dallas telecommunications giant reached a class-action settlement after two data breaches in 2024.

Texans whose personal information was taken in two AT&T data breaches should soon see their portion of a $177 million settlement.

A federal judge approved the deal earlier this month, and payments are expected to start arriving by the end of the year and into early 2027.

The Dallas-based telecommunications company agreed to resolve a class-action lawsuit after breaches in 2024 exposed sensitive data belonging to millions of customers.

Payments will differ depending on which breach affected a person, what information was exposed and what proof was submitted. Here's what to know.

How much money can I get?

Customers affected by the first breach may receive up to $5,000 if they can document financial losses. Those impacted by the second breach may be eligible for up to $2,500 with supporting records.

Without documentation, payments will be much smaller, with estimates ranging from $6.50 to $40, according to court documents.

Nearly 5 million claim forms had been filed as of Aug. 24, 2026, according to the court's final approval order.

The breaches

The first breach, announced in March 2024, affected 73 million current and former AT&T customers after names, birth dates and Social Security numbers were leaked onto the dark web, creating the risk of identity fraud.

A second breach, announced in July 2024, exposed call and text records for nearly all AT&T wireless customers, along with customers of mobile virtual network operators hosted on AT&T servers, such as Cricket Wireless and StraightTalk. The data was illegally downloaded from an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform hosted by Snowflake, Inc.

The breaches triggered a wave of lawsuits in state and federal courts, later consolidated into a class-action case.

Nearly 5 million claim forms had been submitted as of Aug. 24, 2026, according to the court's final approval order. The settlement administrator had received 754,263 paper claims and 4,163,810 electronic claims, for a total of 4,918,073 claims.

Data security

AT&T has more than 110 million customers in the U.S. and nearly 2.5 million business accounts.

Digital privacy remains an important concern, and people should be careful about data theft. Recommended steps include freezing credit, enabling multifactor authentication and using stronger passwords with a mix of numbers, letters and symbols.