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FCC reaches $13m settlement with AT&T for vendor data breach

A person walks past an AT&T Store in New York City.
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Threat actors obtained customer data by breaching the cloud environment of a former vendor.

US telecom giant AT&T has agreed to pay $13m to settle an investigation into the company’s supply chain integrity and alleged cloud breach by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

In January 2023, threat actors were able to penetrate the systems of a former vendor of AT&T, which