Well, here we are again. Even years later, it's still hard to fully grasp the degree to which Yahoo failed at protecting the data of billions of people across multiple breaches in the 2010s. But now, thanks to a class action suit against Yahoo that has reached a proposed settlement, you have until July 20 to file a claim if you were impacted. Don't miss out on your chance for a $100 apology.
You might have already gotten an email or other notification about this in September; if you filed a claim at the time, more power to you. But if you just got a notice—or follow-up—last week and haven't taken action yet, now is the time.
You're eligible to submit if you had a Yahoo account laying around anytime between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016 and reside in the United States or Israel. You can claim for either credit monitoring or cold, hard cash. As with other data breach class actions like the Equifax settlement, though, there are some things to, ahem, watch out for to make sure you're maximizing your payout.
Let's take a quick stroll down memory lane, shall we? Yahoo announced in September 2016 that an intrusion in 2014, likely perpetrated by state-sponsored hackers, compromised personal information from 500 million user accounts. Two months later, the company added that it had suffered a separate breach in August 2013 that exposed a billion accounts. And in March 2017, the company admi ..
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