Comcast agrees to $117.5M data breach class action settlement

A Pennsylvania federal judge has preliminarily approved a $117.5M class action settlement over Comcast’s October 2023 data breach, which affected 31.6 million notified customers and was disclosed in December 2023; proposed relief includes three years of credit monitoring and identity protection plus either up to $10,000 for documented losses and time or a $50 cash alternative, with a final approval hearing scheduled for July 7—prospective claimants are advised to wait for the official settlement site; the article also notes that while large, this settlement is smaller than Equifax’s 2017 breach settlement.