AT&T Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over 70 Million Customers' D...

(CTN News) - The company AT&T is facing a class action lawsuit over a significant data breach that compromises customers' personal information, accusing the company of negligence and breach of contract in connection with the incident. Plaintiffs, representing more than 70 million current and former AT&T customers, filed a lawsuit on April 3, claiming that their names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and personal identifiers were exposed in an extensive data breach. AT&T denied the breach ever took place and refused to investigate further after it learned about it in August 2021, when hackers auctioned off the database of 70 million customers' personally identifiable information in an online hacking forum. It was alleged that AT&T failed to investigate the breach of personal information for nearly three years, and as a result, it was negligent and breached its contra...