India, June 25 -- AT&T is scheduled to roll out a long-due $177 million settlement amount on June 20, as per the preliminary approval passed by a US district judge in Texas. This amount will be distributed to affected current and past subscribers who lost confidential data due to security breaches through external hacking. A final hearing on the matter is scheduled for December 3 this year.

In 2019, a major data leak in the network service provider resulted in the names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth of multiple customers being compromised by cybercriminals. Out of the $177 million settlement amount being distributed by the company, $149 million is meant to address his breach specifically. About 51 million users' data was c...