Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology Settlement Resolves Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit

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Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology, P.C. has agreed to a settlement to wrap up a class action lawsuit that alleged the pathology laboratory failed to protect the sensitive information in its care from a data breach discovered in January 2025.

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The Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on May 22, 2026. The deal covers all living individuals whose personally identifiable and/or personal health information was maintained on Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology's systems that were compromised as a result of the data breach announced by the lab on or around May 22, 2025.

Court documents state that approximately 235,000 people are covered by the class action settlement.

The court-approved website for the Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology (MCP) data breach settlement can be found at M-CPSettlement.com.

Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology settlement class members who file a valid, timely claim form can receive up to $1,000 for documented losses stemming from the data breach. This benefit covers losses resulting from identity theft or fraud and the costs of professional fees, credit repair services, freezing or unfreezing credit, credit monitoring services, and more.

Class members must submit proof, such as receipts or correspondence, to receive a documented-loss payout.

In lieu of a documented-loss payment, class members whose Social Security numbers were compromised in the data breach can file a claim form to receive a $10 alternative cash payment. Only class members whose Social Security numbers were involved in the data breach can receive this cash payout, court documents state.

In addition to any monetary relief, all class members can submit a claim to receive one year of three-bureau credit monitoring services.

To file an MCP settlement claim form online, class members can head to this page and log in using the class member ID listed 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 MCP settlement claim forms must be submitted online or by mail by August 21, 2026.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology settlement following a hearing on October 12, 2026. Compensation will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval is granted and any appeals are resolved.

The Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology class action lawsuit alleged that the North Carolina-based gastrointestinal and surgical pathology laboratory failed to implement reasonable cybersecurity protections to safeguard the sensitive information of current and former patients, which allegedly led to a data breach detected by the facility on or around January 16, 2025.

Per court documents, private information that may have been exposed in the breach included names, addresses, dates of birth, medical treatment information, health insurance information and, for some patients, Social Security numbers.

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