Equifax Reaches $1.4B Data Breach Settlement in Consumer Class Action | Law.com

July 23, 2019 3oliver

David Balser (left) and Phyllis Sumner of King & Spalding enter the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse in Atlanta on Monday. They are the lead attorneys for Equifax in the consumer class action lawsuit over the company’s massive data breach. (Photo: John Disney/ALM)

Equifax has agreed to pay at least $1.4 billion to settle multidistrict litigation brought on behalf of 147 million U.S. consumers and pay millions more to resolve civil complaints brought by the federal government and multiple state attorneys general over its massive 2017 data breach.