Sonic to Pay $5.73 Million to Settle Class-Action Credit Union Lawsuit

New agreement will end long and highly-contested court battles over one of the largest payment card data breaches.

By Peter Strozniak | May 20, 2022 at 03:22 PM

After nearly three years of highly-contested court battles and arduous marathon negotiations, Sonic has agreed to pay $5.73 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for one of the largest payment card data breaches in 2017 that affected at least 4,000 credit unions and banks and more than five million customers.

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