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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – AT&T (NYSE:) 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.