Next month, T-Mobile will begin sending out payments from the $350 million settlement it reached in a 2022 class action lawsuit over a data breach.
The lawsuit came after the company was the victim of a cyberattack in August 2021. That attack left the personal data of 76 million T-Mobile customers in the U.S. compromised.
Information the attackers gained access to included customers’ names, Social Security numbers, and addresses.
While the telephone carrier has maintained it did nothing wrong, it agreed to payout $350 million in a settlement.
Now, four years after the attack, the payments are scheduled to be released in April 2025, after numerous delays and legal disputes, according to the settlement administrator.
As for who qualifies for the payments, those eligible were notified in 2022, but payments won’t be equal across the board. Technically, all 76 million customers who saw their data breached are eligible, but payment size will depend on how much time and money each individual lost in the breach.
The settlement administrator says if a person “spent money trying to avoid or recover from fraud or identity theft that you believe was fairly traceable to the T-Mobile Data Breach,” they will qualify for the biggest payout, which is a reimbursement of up to $25,000.
Customers who qualify for this level of payment were instructed to provide documentation of their losses, which can include money spent on credit monitoring services, losses resulting from identity theft, and the time they took to freeze their credit.
Those who didn’t file documentation will still get a chunk of the settlement, though it will be smaller, as most could see payments of $25, while some who lived in California in August 2021 will receive $100.
The settlement administrator noted that those payments are the maximum customers will receive if they did not file documentation.
Those who aren’t certain if they qualify can reach the settlement administrator at 1-833-512-2314 or online on the official website.