Now all you have to do is remember Yahoo! your email address, even if you have been using it for years. Please do not laugh… then the CEO of Yahoo! she was Marissa meyer.
The company's customers can finally receive some compensation for exposing their personal information to hackers not one, not two, not three or four, but five times between 2012 and 2016.
The proposed $117,5 million settlement got final approval ap;o ton judge. So millions of customers received an email post officey this week outlining what they need to do to be able to get their hands on some money.
There is good news and bad news:
The good news is that if you had a Yahoo! mail between 2012 and 2016 you are entitled to "up to 358.80 dollars".
The bad news is that not only do you have to fill out a form to get them, you also have to remember Yahoo! that you have been using for years, but if you have not monitored your credit card transactions (credit monitoring), you are not going to get a cent.
Even if you had credit monitoring and filled out the form, you probably won't be able to get the full $358. The data leaked were from 196 million people in five separate security breaches, which equates to about 60 cents each. But since many will not be dealing with crumbs, there are reports that if you just fill out the form you will receive at least $100. We'll see.
This is Yahoo !, nothing is so easy and nothing is a given.
Guess who wins?
However, one group is flying in the clouds, and that is of course, the group of lawyers. They are asking for 25,5 percent of their fee, which in simple math means $30 million. And if you think the amount is high, the judge agrees with you: Judge Lucy Koh refused to accept last year's settlement because lawyersterms they wanted $35 million.
If you can stand it, if you can remember Yahoo! your email, you had credit monitoring, and are willing to go into more detail, visit the page of the company to claim your reward.
Yahoo !, we will not miss you.