We’ve recently talked about how AT&T settled a court case to pay millions to users after data breaches it suffered. Well, that’s not the only tech settlement case out there. There are actually 4 big tech settlement payments that you may be eligible for in 2025, and folks over at Mashable were kind enough to round them up.
4 tech companies are sending out billions in settlement payouts
In this article, we’ll list all four possibilities, as some of you may not even be aware that you could be owed money. We’ll kick things off with AT&T and work our way down the list.
AT&T
AT&T has recently settled a court case over several data breaches that happened between 2019 and 2024. If you’re an AT&T customer, you may be entitled to some of the $177 million settlement. AT&T will be paying out up to $7,500 per customer, depending on how affected you were by the breaches.
The company said that it will contact customers between August and October regarding the whole ordeal. If you haven’t been contacted yet, you will be soon, though you can check things out for yourself. Check out the website devoted to the settlement. You’ll find all the necessary details there.
Amazon
The second in line, in no specific order, is Amazon. This is a much bigger settlement in comparison, as Amazon agreed to pay $1.5 billion to 35 million customers. Why? Well, over alleged deceptive practices regarding Prime membership.
If you signed up to be a Prime member between 2019 and 2025, and did that by using one of the “challenged enrollment flows”, you could be eligible to get a payment from Amazon. Some customers will get automatically paid, while others will need to send their claims form.
Anthropic
Anthropic also agreed to pay $1.5 billion, just like Amazon, but for an entirely different purpose. Anthropic will be paying the money to authors over allegations it used their work to train its AI model.
One thing worth noting is that the judge in this case has expressed reservations about the settlement, so things may still change.
The deadline for claim submissions in the Facebook case was back in 2023. So you cannot do it for this one anymore, but Facebook did start paying out settlements related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal last month. So if you sent in a claim, you could be getting some cash soon, if you haven’t already.
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