Cash App users have hours left to submit a $15 million claim

Cash App was ordered to pay $15 million to app users who faced a security breach that resulted in the release of millions of users’ personal data.

Users can receive up to $2,500 for unauthorized or fraudulent activity on their Cash App accounts between August 23, 2018 and August 20, 2024. Users who have already been refunded by Block, Cash App Investing or a third party do not qualify.

The breach occurred when a former Cash App employee downloaded users’ personal information without their knowledge.

The December 2021 data breach resulted in the “unauthorized public release of the personally identifiable information of 8.2 million current and former Cash App Investing customers,” according to the lawsuit.

Plaintiffs sued Cash App Investing and Block, saying the companies failed to “exercise reasonable care in securing and protecting consumer information.”

Users can submit a claim for direct loss, lost time and transaction loss.

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For lost time, a user can submit a claim for up to three hours at a rate of $25 per hour for time spent dealing with the data breach. For paid losses, a user must show that his or her account was involved in the data breach, and for a transaction loss, a user must show that he or she lost money and was not refunded.

Users should submit only one claim. Users with multiple accounts should list them on a single form.