Owed Money from a Data Breach? Make Sure That Settlement Isn’t a Scam

Sometimes a data breach results in more than an email and a few free months of credit monitoring. In September, Facebook began paying out claims from 2023’s massive $725 million privacy settlement, and claim notices started going out for AT&T’s $177 million settlement, so a lot of people are checking their inboxes. Getting justice in the form of cash for your lost or stolen private data is the best outcome we can hope for in an era of near-constant data breaches. Unfortunately,…