AT&T has reached a settlement over the 2023 data breach involving customer data, agreeing to pay a $13 million fine.

An unsecured platform made roughly 4.6 million records across a dozen Illinois counties temporarily available on the Internet. Information exposed included voting registrations. The vulnerability was identified in July.

The settlement with the Federal Communications Commission resolves an investigation of a cyberattack that saw almost 9 million customer records exposed.

AT&T got a $13 million fine for a 2023 data breach related to a cloud vendor. In April of this year, AT&T found that a team of hackers breached the security of one of its cloud ve

AT&T gave customer data to a vendor, and then allegedly failed to ensure the vendor destroyed the data when it was no longer needed.