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• Feds claims just 7% of available funds from OPM breach settlement, remainder returns to Treasury - January 3, 2025

• Only a few thousand current federal workers, former employees and applicants cashed in from 2015 hack.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Current federal employees, retirees and others impacted by widespread breach of personal data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management took advantage of only a small portion of the money made available in a settlement agreement following the 2015 hack.

  Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit reached a settlement in 2022 with the government that made $63 million available for those who could demonstrate financial hardship as a result of the breach. A federal judge closed out the case last month after OPM and the Treasury Department doled out just $4.8 million to just more than 5,000 individuals. The remaining $58.2 million is set to go back to the Treasury on Thursday, according to court documents last month. 

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