Partial payouts for 2015 OPM data breach
Partial payouts for 2015 OPM data breach  
Podcast: Federal Newscast
Published On: Tue Jan 07 2025
Description: The federal government is only paying out a small fraction of the settlement funds it set aside for victims of the 2015 Office of Personnel Management data breach. A federal courtin October 2022 finalized a $63 million settlement for those impacted by thebreach. But a recent court filing shows about the federal government paid about$4.7 million to more than 5,000 individuals who could demonstrate harm from thedata breach. The OPM breach impacted about 22 million current and formerfederal employees.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.