- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Adrianne Appel2024-07-23T14:07:00
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is preparing to take enforcement action against AT&T for a data outage in February that blocked 92 million phone calls.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau referred the matter, which occurred Feb. 22 and prevented 25,000 911 calls from being completed, to the agency’s Enforcement Bureau, the FCC said.
The outage impacted users in every state, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the FCC said in a report, published Monday.
2024-04-01T14:00:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
AT&T said personal account data on approximately 73 million current and former customers was released on the dark web two weeks ago but has not yet identified when and where the breach occurred.
2022-12-05T21:16:00Z By Adrianne Appel
AT&T agreed to pay $6.25 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission addressing allegations three of its executives fed sensitive financial information to Wall Street research analysts and not investors.
2022-10-17T18:10:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
An Illinois-based subsidiary of AT&T will pay $23 million and revamp its ethics and compliance program following a criminal investigation into bribes the company paid attempting to influence the Illinois state legislature.
2025-07-02T18:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Emerging enforcement priorities of the U.S. Department of Justice’s health care fraud division align with the Trump administration’s emphasis on prosecuting transnational criminal organizations and ending opioid trafficking.
2025-07-01T23:26:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has yet to keep up the level of enforcement it had under previous chair Lina Khan. The agency, however, returned to antitrust action in the case of fuel stations, just in time for the July 4th holiday.
2025-06-25T16:29:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In May, three commissioners for the Consumer Product Safety Commission were abruptly fired by President Donald Trump and sued for their jobs shortly after. A federal judge has ruled that the commissioners should be reinstated, although it’s unclear whether that ruling may itself be reversed.
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