Connecticut AG settles with Frontier for $625,000 over 2024 breach
Original title: Attorney General Tong Announces $625,000 Settlement with Frontier Over Data Breach
Compromised employee and vendor credentials exposed SSNs of 58,841 Connecticut residents; a class action covers about 750,000 people.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced a $625,000 settlement with Frontier Communications Parent Inc. over an April 2024 breach. A threat actor used compromised employee and vendor credentials to reach internal systems and steal unencrypted personal data, later offered for sale. DataBreaches attributes the incident to RansomHub. A separate $5.64 million Texas class action provides nationwide relief and two years of credit monitoring. Verizon, which acquired Frontier in January 2026, cooperated with the investigation.
Unconfirmed: DataBreaches attributes the breach to RansomHub; the quoted announcement describes an unnamed threat actor.
- The state payment is $625,000, with injunctive security and privacy terms.
- About 750,000 people are covered by the $5.64 million class settlement.
- Investigators cited failures in access control, segmentation, logging, encryption, and response.
- A third-party assessment is due within one year of the effective date.
Impact: SSNs and personal data of about 750,000 people exposed
- ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actors
- RansomHub
- Victims
- Frontier Communications
- Organizations
- Connecticut Attorney General's OfficeVerizon
- Countries
- United States
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3 min read at databreaches.netConnecticut Attorney General William Tong has been active in litigating data breaches. The press release below relates to a 2024 breach of Frontier Communications by RansomHub: Attorney General William Tong today announced a $625,000 settlement with Frontier Communications Parent Inc. , resolving an investigation into an April 2024 data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information,...
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