United States:
Technology Company Strikes $50 Million Settlement In Data Breach Litigation
07 January 2019
by
Jeremy S. Close
,
Meredith Collier
,
David R. Coogan
,
Jennifer Everett
,
Robert Levent Hergüner
,
Richard Johnson
,
Laura Lim
,
Christopher Markham
,
Daniel McLoon
,
Mary Alexander Myers
,
Mauricio Paez
and
Nicole Perry
Jones Day
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On October 22, an email service provider agreed to pay $50
million to settle a class action in the Northern District of
California related to a trio of data breaches involving
unauthorized access to usernames, passwords, and other private data
of up to three billion email user accounts worldwide. The
settlement still needs to be approved by the district court. The
settlement would require the company to establish a $50 million
non-reversionary settlement fund and provide at least two years of
credit monitoring and identity theft-protection services for all
settlement class members.
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