T-Mobile data breach settlement overview:
- Who: Consumers who qualify to benefit from a settlement involving a 2021 T-Mobile data breach are expected to begin receiving payments in April.
- Why: A federal appeals court recently affirmed a lower court’s approval of the settlement, which will provide $350 million to class members.
- Where: The T-Mobile data breach settlement benefits consumers nationwide.
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T-Mobile customers who were impacted by a 2021 data breach are expected to begin receiving settlement payments in April.
The settlement ended claims T-Mobile failed to protect consumers’ personal information in a data breach that affected more than 76 million people by exposing names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver’s license information.
T-Mobile agreed to pay $350 million in 2022 to resolve the claims and while a federal judge approved the settlement in June 2023, objectors appealed the decision, delaying the settlement payments.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit issued an opinion affirming the district court’s approval of the T-Mobile data breach settlement on July 29, 2024, but reversed a lower court’s opinion regarding attorney fees, resulting in further proceedings.
With all court proceedings now complete, the distribution of settlement payments is expected to begin in April 2025.
T-Mobile data breach settlement provides $350M to consumers
The T-Mobile data breach settlement provides $350 million in payments to consumers who were affected by the incident, with class members able to receive an estimated $25 per person.
Class members who experienced extraordinary expenses as a result of the T-Mobile data breach, meanwhile, may be able to receive up to $25,000, according to the settlement.
The T-Mobile settlement also provides class members with two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services.
The deadline for class members to submit a claim was Jan. 23, 2023. Consumers who did not file a claim by this deadline are not eligible to receive a payment from the T-Mobile data breach settlement.
Notices were also sent in October 2024 to certain class members who submitted a response to their deficient claim.
In other recent T-Mobile news, the company agreed late last year to pay $3.65 million to resolve claims it failed to properly pay its account executive employees.
Are you eligible to benefit from the T-Mobile data breach settlement? Let us know in the comments.
The T-Mobile data breach settlement is In re: T-Mobile Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, Case No. 4:21-md-03019, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
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