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The settlement, described in an SEC filing and court filing (PDF) first spotted by Geekwire, doesn’t appear to have separate terms for people affected differently by the hack - but that might have been handled separately for all we know. Estimates of how many people were affected varied, with T-Mobile claiming less than a million had accounts and PINs fully exposed (still not great), and somewhere between 40 and 100 million users total with some data taken. The breach apparently occurred sometime early last year, after which collections of T-Mobile customer data were put up for sale on various criminal forums.

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The company has just announced the terms of a settlement in a consolidated class action lawsuit, and it isn’t cheap: $350 million to be split up by customers (and lawyers), plus $150 million “for data security and related technology.” Let this be a lesson to all companies: If you stay ready, you don’t have to spend $150 million to get ready!

If you were one of the nearly 77 million people affected by last year’s T-Mobile breach, you may have a few bucks coming your way.