Capital One Class Action Settlement Payments Are Being Sent Out - Check Your Email

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Settlement Status: Payments Sent as of October 1, 2023

Claim Form Deadline: Closed

Estimated Payout: Up to $707

What's is the Capital One Data Breach Class Action About?

A $190,000,000 Class Action Settlement has been approved and is paying out consumers. Consumers are reporting checks over $700.00 sent to their email with an option to select the type of payment. Yes, the Capital One open class action settlement payment emails are real, but be sure to check that the email is from the legitimate Capital One class action settlement administrator. As always, be careful sharing your personally identifiable information online without checking sources first. Capital One Email Payment Sent

The original capital one class action lawsuit was settled over the data breach and malicious hacking by third party actors of Capital One's consumer data. As a result a fund has been created to reimburse people affected by a recent Capital One data breach in a record-breaking settlement.

The Capital One data breach is massive affecting nearly 100 million consumers, and is similar to an ongoing class action that was settled with equifax over a data breach that resulted in personally identifiable information data leaks.

In July 2019, Capital One announced that it had been the victim of a criminal cyber attack on its systems. The cyber crime bad actor gained unauthorized access to the personal information of approximately 98 million U.S. consumers.

The information that have been hacked included a combination of people's names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, self-reported income, credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact data, and/or fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018.

The Capital One data breach also resulted in about 120,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers being accessed by attackers. This data is deemed extremely sensitive as it is sensitive and personally identifiable information.

How Do I Qualify?

The Capital One Data Breach Class Action is now closed to any new claims. To stay up to date on current and upcoming class actions join OpenClassAction.com's official newsletter, or stay up to date by bookmarking OpenClassAction's complete list of class action lawsuits currently open to claims.

How Do I Find Class Action Settlements?

Find all the latest Class Action Settlements you can qualify for by getting notified of new lawsuits as soon as they are open to claims:

What Can I Get?

Consumers are reporting payments upwards of $700 per class action claim form filed. For those that had proof that they had information compromised and their identities stole, payments are reported upwards of $10,000 per claim as of October 2023. Cash payment will be shared among all participant. Also in case you spent money to deal with fraud or identity theft you can submit a claim for reimbursement (including your claim for Lost Time). Out-of-Pocket Losses that are eligible for reimbursement may include, without limitation, the following:

• Money spent on or after March 22, 2019, associated with placing or removing a security freeze on your credit report with any credit reporting agency;

• Money spent on credit monitoring or identity theft protection on or after March 22, 2019;

• Non-reimbursed costs, expenses, losses or charges you paid on or after March 22, 2019, because of identity theft or identity fraud, falsified tax returns, or other alleged misuse of your personal information that you believe was fairly traceable to the Data Breach;

• Other miscellaneous expenses related to any Out-Of-Pocket Loss that you believe were fairly traceable to the Data Breach such as notary, fax, postage, copying, mileage, and long-distance telephone charges; and

• Professional fees incurred in connection with addressing identity theft, fraud, or falsified tax returns that you believe was fairly traceable to the Data Breach.

How Do I File a Claim?

You must have completed a claim form by September 30, 2022 online to qualify. The Capital One Data Breach Class Action Settlement is already paying out, and the class action has already passed the open class action period when files can be claimed, as well as the appeals phase. Many affected Capital One customers experienced a financial windfall far beyond their initial expectations. Some individuals claimed to have received payment notifications totaling upwards of $700.