Up to $825K Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Data Breach Settlement Resolves Lawsuit Over 2024 Cyber Incident

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Brockton Neighborhood Health Center has agreed to a class action settlement of up to $825,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the community health organization failed to adequately protect current and former patients’ personal information from a November 2024 data breach.

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The Brockton Neighborhood Health Center class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on August 6, 2026. Eligible for the settlement are all United States residents whose private information was impacted in the data incident affecting Brockton Neighborhood Health Center in or around November 2024, including all who received notice of the data breach.

Court documents state that approximately 97,488 people are included in the settlement class.

The court-authorized Brockton Neighborhood Health Center class action settlement website can be found at BNHDataSettlement.com.

Class members who file a timely, valid claim form can receive up to $2,500 for documented out-of-pocket losses incurred between November 1, 2024 and December 8, 2026 due to the Brockton data breach. Documented losses covered by this benefit include, but are not limited to, unreimbursed monetary losses from identity theft or fraud.

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

In addition, class members can file a claim form to receive reimbursement for up to three hours of lost time spent responding to the data incident, at a rate of $30 per hour, subject to the $2,500 cap on documented-loss payments.

In lieu of a documented-loss and/or lost-time payment, class members can submit a claim form to receive a cash payout of up to $50, with no proof required.

Should the total value of all valid claims and expenses exceed the $825,000 settlement cap, payments to class members will be reduced on a pro rata (proportional) basis.

Lastly, all class members can elect on their claim form to receive three years of one-bureau credit monitoring, which includes identity theft insurance. Activation codes for the service will be sent to class members after the deal receives final approval from the court.

To file a Brockton Neighborhood Health Center settlement claim form online, class members can navigate to this page and enter the class member ID 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 Brockton Neighborhood Health Center settlement claim forms must be submitted online or postmarked by December 8, 2026.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center data breach class action settlement following a hearing on January 12, 2027. Settlement benefits will begin to be made available to class members only after final approval has been granted and any appeals have been resolved.

The Brockton Neighborhood Health Center class action lawsuit alleged that the Brockton, Massachusetts-based nonprofit community health center failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures to protect current and former patients’ personal information from a data breach, which occurred between November 1 and November 3, 2024.

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