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Former AT&T customers get $6.3 million in data throttling refunds
2024-04-12 15:56

The Federal Trade Commission is sending out $6,300,000 in partial refunds to 267,000 former AT&T Wireless customers as part of a data throttling settlement in 2019.

The action follows a 2014 lawsuit by the FTC claiming that AT&T did not fully disclose the terms of its so-called "Unlimited data plans" to customers, specifically the fact that their data speeds would be significantly reduced after they hit a certain data consumption threshold.

Former customers had not received any share of the settlement.

This risk is now elevated for about 51 million AT&T customers after the company suffered a data breach and the stolen information was leaked in a hacking forum last month.

AT&T now says data breach impacted 51 million customers.

AT&T faces lawsuits over data breach affecting 73 million customers.


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