AT&T will pay a $25 million fine for "lax security" at overseas call centers where employees stole personal data for mobile phone traffickers, US regulators said Wednesday. The Federal Communications Commission announced the settlement in the case which affected some 280,000 AT&T customers. FCC officials said the lack of security at AT&T call centers in Mexico, Colombia, and the Philippines allowed employees in those locations to steal personal information which could be used to "unlock" stolen phones. The employees "provided that information to unauthorized third parties who appear to have been trafficking in stolen cell phones or secondary market phones that they wanted to unlock," an FCC statement said.



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