Home Depot Data Breach Final Settlement Checks Mailed

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Top Class Actions viewers say they are receiving checks, some of which exceed $8,000, in a second distribution of payments from a Home Depot data breach class action settlement.

The first batch of payments, sent out around April of this year, went out to qualifying Class Members who filed valid claims for actual losses related to the data breach.

According to comments and posts on the Top Class Actions Facebook page, viewers are now receiving a second check for hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars.

After the first distribution, some of the remaining funds were used to reimburse Home Depot for the costs of settlement administration and of the Identity Guard Monitoring Services provided to qualifying Class Members.

The current and second round of payments distributes the last of the settlement fund.

This Home Depot class action settlement resolves claims over a data breach that affected the self-checkout counters at Home Depot stores across the U.S.

According to the company’s announcement, the breach exposed the credit card information of customers who used self-checkout counters between April 10 and Sept. 13, 2014. A separate file containing customers’ email addresses was also exposed. Around 40 million Home Depot customers were believed to be affected by this breach.

Several Home Depot class actions that followed the company’s announcement were consolidated into a single action, which ultimately led to the current settlement.

Home Depot established a $13 million settlement fund to compensate customers affected by the data breach. Qualifying Class Members could be entitled to up to $10,000 each for documented losses related to the breach.

The settlement also required Home Depot to provide up to 18 months’ worth of Identity Guard Monitoring Services to help protect affected customers against identity theft and credit fraud.

Class Members eligible to claim benefits included persons who used a credit or debit card at a self-checkout stand at a U.S. Home Depot store between April 10 and Sept. 13, 2014 and whose payment card information was compromised, as well as all persons who received notification that their email address was compromised and those who received a settlement notice notifying them that they were a Class Member.

The deadline to submit a claim for the Home Depot data breach settlement passed on Oct. 29, 2016.

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The plaintiff Class is represented by attorneys Norman E. Siegel and Barrett J. Vahle of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Roy E. Barnes and John R. Bevis of The Barnes Law Group LLC, David J. Worley and James M. Evangelista of Harris Penn Lowry LLP, and John A. Yanchunis Sr. of Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group.

The Home Depot Data Breach Class Action Settlement is In re: The Home Depot Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, Case No. 1:14-md-02583-TWT, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.