Guests and others whose personal data was caught up in the Woodloch Pines data incident have until Jan. 13, 2027 to file for a flat $60 payment or up to $3,500 in documented losses. The class covers all living individuals in the United States whose information was caught up in the incident, and the settlement is pending before the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Notices began going out on Oct. 15, 2026.
The case, In re: Woodloch Pines Data Breach Litigation, carries the number 594-CV-2024. The court granted preliminary approval on Sept. 15, 2026. A judge has not yet approved the deal for good, and no payments go out until that happens.
What the Woodloch settlement pays
Class members choose one of two cash payments, and the settlement website says a person must pick between them. Cash Payment A reimburses actual, documented out-of-pocket losses of up to $3,500. Cash Payment B is a one-time $60 payment with no proof or explanation required.
The documented route covers losses from May 4, 2024 through Jan. 13, 2027, the same day the claim period ends. Bank statements and receipts count as proof. The settlement FAQ says self-made notes or papers alone are not enough to make a valid claim, and expenses that a third party already reimbursed do not qualify.
Every class member can also enroll in two years of CyEx Financial Shield Complete, a credit monitoring service that comes with $1 million of identity theft insurance, according to the settlement site. Enrolling in monitoring is separate from choosing a cash payment. The FAQ does not say the $60 or the $3,500 can be reduced if claims run high.
Anyone who got a postcard from the settlement administrator is on Woodloch’s list of class members, the website says. People who lost the notice can still use the site to ask for the details needed to file. Paper forms are available by phone at (833) 296-0849 or by email at info@WoodlochSettlement.com.
The decision for most people comes down to paperwork. A person with no out-of-pocket losses from the incident can file the short online claim form and pick the $60. A person who paid for a replacement card, a credit freeze, a fraud repair or similar costs should gather the statements first and weigh them against that flat amount.
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The dates that matter before Jan. 13
Three deadlines sit close together, and they do different jobs. The claim deadline of Jan. 13, 2027 applies to online claims submitted by then and to mailed claims postmarked by then. The opt-out deadline and the objection deadline are both Dec. 14, 2026, a month earlier, according to the settlement site’s important dates page.
Opting out and filing a claim are opposite choices, and the site says the only way to receive a payment is a valid, timely claim form. Anyone weighing whether to stay in the class or object to the terms has to decide by Dec. 14, not Jan. 13. The FAQ answers on opt-outs and objections are numbered 15 and 16 on the settlement site.
Objections are written to the court. Class members who object may ask to speak at the final approval hearing, which is set for Feb. 24, 2027. The settlement site does not list a time or place for the hearing and sends people to the administrator for those details.
Who pays the lawyers and who runs the claims
Class counsel will ask the court to approve up to $125,000 in attorneys’ fees and litigation costs. Each class representative may receive a service award of up to $2,500. Woodloch pays both, the FAQ says, and class members are not charged for the lawyers’ work.
The settlement site is run by Simpluris, and mailed claims go to Woodloch Data Incident Settlement, c/o Settlement Administrator, P.O. Box 25191, Santa Ana, CA 92799. The site states plainly that the only way to receive benefits or payments from the settlement is by submitting a valid and timely claim form. A notice postcard on its own pays nothing.
Payments will be made only after the court grants final approval and any appeals are resolved, the site says. No payment date has been announced. Because the hearing is not until Feb. 24, 2027, anyone who files in January should expect to wait well past that date.
Protecting accounts while the claim is pending
A flat $60 payment does nothing about the exposure itself, and the court deal pays for losses that already happened. The FTC says a credit freeze is free to place and lift, and that it must be requested at all three bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. The agency’s page on credit freezes and fraud alerts also explains that a fraud alert lasts one year, while an extended alert for identity theft victims lasts seven years.
People who find a charge or an account they did not open can file a report and get a recovery plan at the FTC’s IdentityTheft.gov. That report matters for the settlement, too, because a documented loss is easier to prove when the dates, amounts and bank records are already in one place. The documented route runs through Jan. 13, 2027, so costs that show up later in the month still count.
The practical order is short. Decide by Dec. 14 whether to stay in the class, pull any statements that show real costs, and file one claim through the settlement site before Jan. 13. Because the site requires a choice between the two payments, a person with a bigger loss in the works should settle on the documented route before filing.
Holding a Woodloch notice?
A Woodloch postcard looks like junk mail, and the cost of treating it that way is easy to see: a Dec. 14 opt-out date that passes unnoticed, then a Jan. 13 claim date that closes with no payment at all. People who stay in the class and never file get neither the $60 nor the $3,500.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System walks through exactly this kind of notice. It includes the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice, which separates the opt-out date from the claim date, and a step-by-step filing walkthrough for sending the form in correctly.
It also comes with a claim log and payment tracker, so a Woodloch filing, the date it went in and the day a check should arrive all sit on one page.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
