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As of July 2026, 59 data breach class action settlements are open for consumer claims, per ClassAction.org's live settlement tracker, and 41% of them cap individual payouts at exactly $5,000. See how that compares to the seven largest US settlements on record, which together total more than $1.39 billion.
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A stolen intellectual property record cost an average of USD 178 in 2025, the most expensive of five data types in IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. Customer personal data averaged USD 160 per record, and both figures fell for every category except IP.
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Across six major US data breach settlements resolved between 2016 and 2024, the compensation fund works out to less than $5 per affected person, and Equifax's own settlement site confirms its advertised $125 payment was cut for exactly that reason.
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Crypto and Web3 platforms handle three data types generic templates conflate: pseudonymous wallet activity, third-party KYC identity checks, and permanent on-chain records.
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The median economic impact of a data breach for small and midsize businesses was $38,406 in 2026, according to Verizon Business and CyberAcuView's inaugural 2026 Breach Impact Study, based on an analysis of 69,683 US cyber insurance claims. In the worst 2.5% of cases, losses exceeded 7% of a company's annual revenue.
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Only about EUR 20 million of the EUR 4.04 billion in GDPR fines Ireland's Data Protection Commission has levied since 2018 has been collected, per the DPC's public fines register updated 20 April 2026. See where collected fines go and why 99.5 percent of fine value sits in appeal.
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