By Beinsure: Insurance, Reinsurance & InsurTech Media
Publication Date: 2026-08-25 19:51:00
A federal judge has approved Comcast Cable Communications’ $117.5 mn settlement over a 2023 data breach affecting millions of customers.
The agreement ranks among the largest monetary settlements reached in US data breach litigation. With roughly 31.7 mn potential class members, it also covers one of the largest groups assembled in a cyber breach case.
Judge John Younge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania described the litigation as unusually complex when approving the agreement.
The dispute traces back to a cyberattack between October 16 and October 19, 2023.
Attackers exploited the Citrix Bleed vulnerability in a Citrix NetScaler appliance Comcast used to manage remote access for customers and contractors. Comcast informed affected customers on December 18, about two months after the intrusion.
Customers alleged Comcast failed to install a security patch Citrix had already released in time to prevent the breach. Their claims…
