AT&T agrees to $13 million fine for third-party cloud breach

The FCC fined AT&T $13 million and imposed a consent decree after a January 2023 breach at a third‑party cloud vendor exposed data for roughly 8.9 million AT&T Mobility customers; the settlement requires improved cloud data protections, vendor oversight, annual audits, and better data disposal tracking, while AT&T stated sensitive fields like credit cards and Social Security numbers were not exposed.