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Top Data Breach Class Action Settlements In 2022
Data breach class actions in 2022 were robust. The T-Mobile settlement at $350 million
lead all settlements by a wide margin.
1. $350 million – In Re T-Mobile Customer Data Security Breach Litigation,
Case No. 21-MD-3019-BCW (W.D. Mo. July 26, 2022) (preliminary settlement
approval granted for a class action alleging that the company failed to prevent a
data breach that affected 76 million Americans).
2. $190 million – In Re Capital One Customer Data Security Breach Litigation,
Case No. 19-MD-2915 (E.D. Va. Sept. 13, 2022) (final settlement approval
granted for a class action alleging that sensitive personal information of
approximately 98 million Americans who had applied for Capital One credit cards
had been stolen by a malicious criminal hacker from Amazon’s AWS cloud where
Capital One stored this information).
3. $63 million – In Re U.S. Office Of Personnel Management Data Security
Breach Litigation, Case No. 15-CV-1394 (D.D.C. Oct. 26, 2022) (final
settlement approval granted for a class action alleging that a data breach of the
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