$675K Urban One Settlement Resolves Class Action Lawsuit Over 2025 Data Breach

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Urban One has agreed to a $675,000 settlement to conclude a class action lawsuit that alleged the media conglomerate failed to protect the sensitive information of current and former employees from a data breach discovered in March 2025.

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The $675,000 Urban One class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on April 30, 2026. The deal covers all United States residents whose personal information was potentially compromised in the data breach discovered by Urban One in March 2025, including all who received notice of the incident.

Court documents state that the class action settlement covers approximately 13,778 people.

The court-approved website for the Urban One data breach settlement can be found at UrbanOneDataIncident.com.

Urban One settlement class members who file a valid, timely claim form can receive up to $10,000 for documented losses incurred between March 15, 2025 and August 31, 2026. This benefit covers losses arising from identity theft or fraud and the costs of credit reports, credit monitoring, freezing or unfreezing credit, replacement IDs, postage, and more.

Class members must submit proof, such as receipts or bank statements, to receive a documented-loss payment.

As part of this benefit, class members can receive compensation for up to 15 hours of lost time spent responding to the breach, at a rate of $25 per hour.

The first four hours of the lost-time benefit cover tasks related to the data breach, including changing passwords, investigating suspicious account activity and researching the breach, and class members must submit a brief description of how they spent that time to receive a payout.

To receive a payout for any of the additional 11 hours, class members must submit proof, such as billing, bank statements or correspondence, that demonstrates the time was spent addressing tax-related issues caused by the Urban One data breach.

Lost-time payouts are subject to the $10,000 documented-loss payout cap.

In lieu of a documented-loss payment, class members can instead file a claim to receive an alternative cash payment, with no proof required. The final value of each class member’s payment will depend on the total number of claims filed and is subject to a cap of $500 per person.

Finally, all class members can file a claim form to receive an enrollment code for three years of CyEx Financial Shield Total, which includes three-bureau credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.

To file an Urban One settlement claim form online, class members can head to this page and log in using the unique ID and PIN found on their copy of the settlement notice. Alternatively, class members can download a PDF of the claim form to print, fill out, and return by mail to the settlement administrator.

All Urban One settlement claim forms must be submitted online or by mail by August 31, 2026.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Urban One class action settlement following a hearing on September 25, 2026. Compensation will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval is granted and any appeals are resolved.

The Urban One class action lawsuit alleged that the Maryland-based radio, television and media conglomerate failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures to safeguard the private information in its care, which allegedly led to a data breach discovered on or around March 15, 2025.

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