A federal court has given final approval to the Flagstar Bank data-breach settlement, which opens the way for payments to people who filed claims. The settlement website says the Court issued a Final Approval Order and Judgment on October 5, 2026. The case covers a class of about 2.19 million people, and the cash payment is estimated at $60 each for those who filed.
What did the court approve on October 5?
The case is Angus, et al. v. Flagstar Bank, N.A., filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under Case No. 2:21-cv-10657. It stems from two data breaches at the bank, one in January 2021 and one in December 2021.
Flagstar must set up a $31,500,000 fund for the benefit of settlement class members. The bank denies the claims and says it did nothing wrong. The settlement site lists the class at about 2,187,170 U.S. individuals, including about 364,000 California residents.
How much is the payment, and who gets one?
Only class members who submitted a valid claim form may be eligible for benefits. The claim deadline was August 11, 2026, and the settlement site marks it as passed. The exclusion and objection deadline, June 29, 2026, has also passed.
The residual cash payment is described as estimated at $60 but up to $599. The $60 figure is an estimate, and $599 is a ceiling. The site does not say how the money is divided among claimants, so the final amount per person is not set.
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For anyone who filed months ago and is asking when the money arrives, the settlement site does not give a payment date. The Court’s order is the step that makes payments possible, but the site does not say when checks or electronic payments will go out, and it does not state whether any appeal is pending. People who filed can use the site’s contact and payment information update page to keep an address current, and the claims administrator controls claims processing.
What other benefits does the settlement carry?
Cash is one part of the package. Class members who filed can claim documented monetary losses of up to $25,000. The settlement also offers three years of credit monitoring from three bureaus.
California residents in the class are eligible for a separate California statutory payment of up to $100. The settlement site does not say how those amounts interact with the residual cash payment, and none of them is paid to people who did not file.
Where do updates on the case come from?
The official settlement site warns that other websites may contain incorrect information about the case. Parts of the site still carry older wording, including a line that a federal judge has given preliminary approval and a final approval hearing listed for October 1, 2026, even though the Court’s order is dated October 5. The newest entry on the page is the October 5 update, which is the one that counts.
The claim site itself is flagstarsettlement.pnclassaction.com, and it has an Update My Contact/Payment Information page at flagstarsettlement.pnclassaction.com/Update. Anyone who moved, changed banks or switched how they want to be paid since filing is who that page is for.
For questions, the site directs people to the claims administrator through its contact page. No phone number or email address is listed there. That leaves the central question for the 2.19 million people in the class who filed: the Court has approved the settlement, the $60 estimate and the $599 ceiling are published, and the date the money arrives is not.
Filed in the Flagstar case and waiting on the payment?
A filer who is waiting on a payment with no published date can easily lose track of what was submitted, when, and what came back. In a case with a $60 estimate, a $599 ceiling and a claim window that closed August 11, there is no second chance to refile.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes a claim log and payment tracker, so the Flagstar filing and its payment date sit in one record. It also covers how to get an expired or uncashed settlement check reissued, which matters if a check arrives months from now and is set aside.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
