The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reached a settlement with AT&T that resolves the agency’s investigation into a January 2023 hack in which AT&T customer information was taken from a vendor’s cloud environment.A consent decree resolving this investigation requires AT&T to pay $13 million and to strengthen its data governance practices, the FCC said in a Tuesday (Sept. 17) press release.“The Communications Act makes clear that carriers have a duty to protect the privacy and security of consumer ...