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Accellion to pay $8.1M in proposed data breach settlement
By 
Jaclyn Jaeger2022-01-14T19:16:00
The Accellion data breach that last year affected a variety of private- and public-sector organizations and compromised the personal data of millions of individuals could be resolved in an $8.1 million class-action settlement.
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