January 07, 2021
A California federal judge on Thursday overruled 761 objections and approved Google's $7.5 million deal resolving a proposed class action over a yearslong data breach that exposed millions of accounts on the now-defunct Google+ social media platform, with class counsel getting $1.875 million in fees and $69,000 in costs.
May 21, 2020
A California federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved Google's $7.5 million deal that would resolve a proposed class action over a yearslong data breach that exposed millions of accounts on the now-defunct Google+ social media platform.
January 07, 2020
Google agreed Monday to pay consumers $7.5 million to settle class actions alleging that the search giant's key senior executives had contemporaneous knowledge of a yearslong data breach that impacted its now defunct Google+ social media platform, yet failed to provide notice to users and Congress until seven months later.
October 09, 2018
Just hours after Google Inc. announced that a data breach compromised the personal information of half a million people, Google users filed a putative consumer protection class action in California federal court alleging the search giant sat on the breach for seven months.