The Federal Communications Commission today announced a $13 million settlement with AT&T to resolve an Enforcement Bureau investigation into the company's supply chain integrity and whether it failed to protect the information of AT&T customers in connection with a data breach of a vendor's cloud environment.
"The Communications Act makes clear that carriers have a duty to protect the privacy and security of consumer data, and that responsibility takes on new meaning for digital age data breaches," said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. "Carriers must take additional precautions given their access to sensitive information..."
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