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Yahoo’s $117 Million Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Dissent

Wendy Davis reports:

Yahoo’s $117.5 million settlement of massive data breaches occurring between 2012 and 2016 has been granted preliminary approval by a federal judge.

The deal’s terms don’t “improperly grant preferential treatment to any individual or segment of the settlement class and fall within the range of possible approval as fair, reasonable, and adequate,” U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District of California wrote Saturday in an order allowing the settlement to advance.

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