AT&T to pay $25M to settle FCC privacy breach case

AT&T agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations its call-center workers leaked confidential information on about 280,000 subscribers so that resellers could unlock used phones, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Federal Communications Commission claimed the privacy breach involved workers disclosing subscribers' names, parts of their Social Security numbers and other data. The call centers in question are in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines.

The call-center workers were accused of selling the data to middlemen in the markets for phone-unlock codes.

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