AT&T has agreed to pay $13 million to settle a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation into a vendor-related data breach that compromised the information of millions of the company’s customers.
The FCC said in a Sept. 17 announcement that the $13 million settlement resolves an Enforcement Bureau investigation into AT&T’s supply chain integrity and whether the company failed to protect its customers’ information in connection with a data breach of one of its vendors, who should not have been holding AT&T customer information.
