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Conduent to pay $80M to settle 62-million-person data breach class action
CONDUENT Inc
- $80M non-reversionary settlement fund covers class payments, credit/medical monitoring, class counsel fees and administration; requires court approval.
- Breach: unauthorized access began on/about Oct 21, 2024, discovered Jan 13, 2025; ~62 million individuals' private information exfiltrated.
- Class members can claim up to $3,500 for documented losses; one year of credit and medical data monitoring via CyEx provided automatically.
- Amended consolidated complaint named clients AIG Procurement, Cigna, Elevance, Health Care Service Corp and Humana; settlement releases Conduent and affected clients.
- Conduent denies liability; says it maintains cyber insurance and does not expect a material impact on financial position, results or cash flows.