WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - AT&T ( T ) has agreed to

pay $13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach

of a cloud vendor in January 2023 that impacted 8.9 million AT&T ( T )

customers, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

The FCC said the fine will resolve its investigation over

whether AT&T ( T ) had failed to protect the information of its

customers and added AT&T ( T ) had agreed to boost its data governance

practices to increase supply chain integrity in the handling of

sensitive data to protect consumers from similar vendor data

breaches in the future.