Security News > 2020 > February > Yahoo! hack! payout! nearly! approved! and! the! question! is! how! to! spend! 60! cents!?

Long-suffering Yahoo! customers may finally get some compensation for having their personal details exposed to hackers not once, not twice, not three times, nor four times, but five times between 2012 and 2016.

The proposed $117.5m settlement from the US class-action lawsuit brought back when Yahoo! actually existed is headed toward its final approval by a judge.

There's good news and bad news: the good news is that if you had a Yahoo! account between 2012 and 2016 you are eligible for "Up to $358.80"; the bad news is that not only do you have to fill in a form to get it, not only do you have to remember that Yahoo! email address you stopped using years ago, but unless you have credit monitoring, you don't get a cent.

Everyone is confident that no one wants anything to do with Yahoo! anymore so they are saying that if you fill in the form you will get at least $100. We'll see.

Although it omits the reality, which is that Yahoo! suffered all these system intrusions because it was utterly incompetent and running around like a headless chicken with Marissa Mayer as CEO. So, if you can stand it, if you can remember your Yahoo! email address, have credit monitoring, and are willing to dig out the details, then head over to the settlement website to claim your reward for putting up with Yahoo! for all those years.

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https://go.theregister.co.uk/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/06/yahoo_breach_settlement/