As far as any free credit monitoring, identity theft insurance, or anything else that AT&T would have to spend actual money on, you can forget it. Where are you going to go? They don't have to do anything to retain you as a customer, so they won't, it's simple corporate math.
In their favor, it sounds like they identified the exact mechanism of the breach. If that was the only breach, then they are probably correct in their assumption that no other data was stolen. Of course, if this is only the first stage of many failures (like the BP disaster) then you might be at risk and nobody is talking about it until it is publicly discovered and disclosed by somebody else. Considering how lawyer-happy Apple and AT&T are, anybody else disclosing info other than AT&T might be in for a world of grief.
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