Brandt Equities Settlement: Data Breach Deal Resolves Lawsuit Over 2025 Cybersecurity Incidents

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Brandt Equities, LP has agreed to a class action settlement to resolve a data breach lawsuit that alleged the business services and solutions company failed to adequately protect confidential information from two November 2025 cybersecurity incidents.

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The Brandt Equities class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on August 19, 2026. Eligible for the settlement are all living United States residents who were sent notice, including notice of this class action settlement, that their private information may have been involved in the November 2025 Brandt Equities data breach.

Court documents state that the private information of approximately 24,891 people may have been accessed in the Brandt Equities data breach.

The court-authorized Brandt Equities class action settlement website can be found at BrandtEquitiesSettlement.com.

Settlement class members who file a timely, valid claim form can receive up to $3,500 for documented, unreimbursed out-of-pocket losses incurred between November 8, 2025 and December 17, 2026 due to the data breach. This benefit covers losses from identity theft or fraud and expenses for credit reports, credit monitoring, freezing/unfreezing credit, replacement IDs, postage to contact banks, and more.

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

In addition, class members can file a claim form to receive reimbursement for up to four hours of lost time spent responding to the data breach, at a rate of $20 per hour. This benefit covers activities such as changing passwords, investigating suspicious account activity, and researching the data incidents.

Lastly, class members can elect on their claim form to receive two years of CyEx Identity Defense Complete, which includes credit monitoring, dark web scanning, public records monitoring, and identity theft insurance.

To file a Brandt Equities settlement claim form online, class members can navigate to this page and enter the login ID and PIN found on their copy of the settlement notice. Alternatively, class members can download a PDF claim form to print, complete, and return by mail to the settlement administrator.

All Brandt Equities settlement claim forms must be submitted online or postmarked by December 17, 2026.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Brandt Equities data breach settlement following a hearing on January 14, 2027. Benefits will begin to be made available to class members only after final approval has been granted and any appeals have been resolved.

The Brandt Equities class action lawsuit alleged that the Fargo, North Dakota-based company, which provides services and solutions for businesses in the real estate, agriculture, industrial equipment, and entertainment industries, failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures to safeguard personal information from two data incidents that occurred between November 8 and November 12 and between November 20 and November 22, 2025.

Court documents state that private information that may have been compromised during the data breach included names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and Social Security numbers.

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