Federal Workers’ $63 Million Data Breach Deal Gains Court Nod

A $63 million privacy settlement over an Office of Personnel Management data breach that impacted millions of federal workers gained preliminary approval by a US judge.

The settlement is meant to offset costs of credit monitoring and identity theft protection in the wake of the incident, announced in 2015, which exposed the personal information of about 22 million federal employees and their families.

The deal still needs final approval after Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave an interim greenlight in a Tuesday order in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Under the agreement to resolve a lawsuit from ...