$1.5M Sturm, Ruger & Company, Freestyle Software Settlement Ends Litigation Over 17-Month Data Breach

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A $1.5 million class action settlement will resolve litigation against Sturm, Ruger & Company and Freestyle Software over a months-long data breach that may have exposed the sensitive personal data of roughly 168,000 ShopRuger.com customers.

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The Ruger and Freestyle class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on May 15, 2025. The deal covers approximately 167,963 United States residents who were notified by Ruger that their personal information may have been compromised in the data breach or whose information was otherwise impacted by the data breach, which occurred between 2020 and 2022.

The court-approved website for the Ruger and Freestyle settlement can be found at FreestyleDataIncidentSettlement.com.

Ruger and Freestyle settlement class members who file a timely, valid claim form will be able to receive reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses, compensation for up to five hours spent dealing with the effects of the data breach at a rate of $25 per hour, and a cash payment, the settlement website relays.

Per the settlement website, out-of-pocket losses and expenses must have been incurred primarily because of the data breach and may include:

- Professional fees, including attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees and fees for credit repair services;

- Credit monitoring costs incurred on or after the data breach period through the date the claim is submitted;

- Costs associated with freezing or unfreezing credit with any credit reporting agency;

- Unreimbursed losses relating to fraud or identity theft; and

- Miscellaneous expenses such as fax, mileage, copying, postage, notary and long-distance telephone charges.

Class members who seek to claim out-of-pocket losses must submit documentation of each claimed loss, the settlement site specifies.

Additionally, the cash payment for eligible claimants is expected to be $50, though this amount may decrease or increase to up to $175 on a pro-rata, or equal-share, basis, the class action settlement website relays.

The total claimable amount per person is limited to $4,500.

To submit a claim form online, class members must visit this page and log in with the unique claim ID and PIN found in their copy of the settlement notice.

Alternatively, class members may enter either their ID and PIN or their name and address to print and fill out a personalized claim form to be mailed back to the address listed here.

All claim forms must be submitted or postmarked by October 27, 2025.

Additionally, as part of the settlement, Freestyle Software has agreed to implement supplemental data security measures and other business practice changes to remedy the effects of the data breach and ensure tighter information security going forward.

A hearing is set for December 4, 2025 to determine whether the settlement will receive final court approval. Settlement payments will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval has been granted and any appeals have been resolved.

The Ruger and Freestyle class action lawsuit claimed that ShopRuger.com, owned by Sturm, Ruger & Company and managed by Freestyle Software, experienced a 17-month-long data breach between September 2020 and February 2022 as a result of the companies’ negligence.

Head to ClassAction.org’s settlements page for a complete list of data breach settlements.