Hundreds of thousands of people will soon be eligible to receive a small payout to compensate them for the city of Long Beach leaking their sensitive data.
The city has agreed to pay $2.35 million to settle a class action lawsuit over a cyberattack where hackers may have accessed Social Security numbers, biometric information, driver’s licenses and passport numbers, health insurance information, taxpayer identification numbers and medical details stored in the city’s digital network.
Payment from the settlement, funded by the city’s insurance carriers, comes out to $5 each for 470,000 Long Beach residents who could potentially sue the city over the data breach, Long Beach Deputy City Attorney Howard Russell said in an email…