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01/30/2019

Judge Denies Approval of $50M Settlement to Yahoo Data Breach Lawsuit

The State of Security

A federal judge has denied the approval of a proposed $50 million settlement to a class action lawsuit over a data breach at Yahoo.

On 28 January, Judge Lucy Koh rejected the settlement in a ordersubmitted to the San Jose division of the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California.

The settlement, to which Yahoo agreed back in November, would have required the web services provider to pay $50 million and provide two years of free credit-monitoring services to 200 million people whose email addresses and personal information were exposed in the data security incident. That data breach affected a total of 3 billion Yahoo accounts.

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