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In Re: Yahoo! Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

  1. August 12, 2020

    No Extra For Yahoo Data Breach Deal Objector, Koh Says

    An objector to Yahoo Inc.'s $117 million data breach class action settlement won't get a piece of attorneys' fees or an incentive award because he did not help increase the size of the deal, a California federal court ruled.

  2. July 21, 2020

    Yahoo Data Breach MDL Attys Get $23M In Cut Fee Award

    A California federal judge approved a $117.5 million deal Tuesday to resolve multidistrict litigation involving 194 million class members over Yahoo's multiple data breaches and awarded class counsel $23 million in fees, declining to award the full $30 million they requested.

  3. June 18, 2020

    Judge Koh Questions $30M Atty Fee Bid In Yahoo Breach MDL

    California federal judge Lucy Koh declined Thursday to approve class counsel's $30 million fee bid for securing a $117.5 million deal resolving sprawling Yahoo data breach multidistrict litigation, demanding more billing information from dozens of plaintiffs' firms — including the "markup" on work by first-year law students.

  4. February 04, 2020

    Yahoo Breach Class Attys Seek Final Deal Nod, $30M In Fees

    Class counsel who secured a $117.5 million deal to resolve sprawling litigation over multiple data breaches at Yahoo are asking U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh for her final stamp of approval and to award them $30 million in fees, according to new documents filed in California federal court.

  5. July 22, 2019

    Yahoo's Revised $117M Data Breach Deal Gets Koh's Initial OK

    U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has preliminarily approved Yahoo's $117.5 million deal to resolve sprawling litigation over multiple data breaches involving approximately 194 million Yahoo accounts, after rejecting previous versions of the settlement for being too vague and inadequately describing the breaches at issue.

  6. June 27, 2019

    Koh Rips Yahoo For Hiding Data Breach History In $117M Deal

    U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday criticized the latest rendition of Yahoo's revised $117.5 million deal to resolve sprawling litigation over multiple data breaches, saying the settlement notices give the impression that Yahoo is trying to hide that there were annual data breaches between 2012 and 2016.

  7. April 09, 2019

    Yahoo, Consumers Send Koh New $117.5M Data Breach Deal

    Yahoo and a proposed class of consumers on Tuesday unveiled a revised $117.5 million deal to resolve sprawling litigation over three data breaches, providing more details about the record pact's size and scope to address concerns that led U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh to reject their previous $50 million settlement proposal.

  8. February 11, 2019

    Yahoo Breach Deal's Failure Shows Vagueness Doesn't Pay

    U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh's recent refusal to approve a $50 million data breach deal between Yahoo and its users sends a clear message to both sides of the bar that, even in instances where damages may be difficult to quantify, courts are becoming increasingly hesitant to rubber-stamp agreements that are thin on details but rich in attorneys' fees. 

  9. January 29, 2019

    $50M Yahoo Data Breach Deal Too Opaque, Judge Koh Says

    A California federal judge has refused to sign off on a $50 million deal that Yahoo reached with consumers to resolve sprawling litigation over a trio of data breaches, finding that the parties failed to adequately explain the actual size of the settlement fund or "why it took 32 law firms to do the work."

  10. October 23, 2018

    Yahoo Email Users Seek OK For $50M Data Breach Deal

    Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million to settle proposed consumer class claims in California federal and state courts over three data breaches that affected billions of U.S. and Israeli accounts, a deal that the consumers said would provide "by far, the largest available cash fund for data breach class members in history."

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