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Equifax data breach judge approves $77.5M in legal fees

More than 400 cases were filed across the nation following Equifax’s September 2017 announcement of the unprecedented breach.

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Kenneth Canfield of Doffermyre Shields Canfield & Knowles, Atlanta, enters the Richard B. Russel Federal Courthouse in Atlanta on Monday July 22, 2019. Canfield along with Amy Keller and Norman Siegel are the consumer plaintiffs lead counsel in the consumer class action case against Equifax as a result of the company's massive data breach. Kenneth Canfield of Doffermyre Shields Canfield & Knowles, Atlanta, enters the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse in Atlanta. (Photo: John Disney/ALM)

The chief judge of the Northern District of Georgia recently gave final approval to a $1.4 billion settlement agreement between Equifax and a class of 147 million consumers whose financial and personal data was exposed.

U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. also approved $77.5 million in legal fees and more than $1.4 million in expenses sought by the plaintiff consumers’ class counsel for their role in negotiating what Thrash called “a historically significant data breach settlement.”

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