In re Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

*1047MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.

This is a consumer class action certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) for settlement. The class is large — over one hundred million payment-card1 holders — and dispersed across the country. Despite a vigorous notice campaign, only eleven valid claims have been filed. Damages are almost entirely in the form of cy pres payments to third-party nonprofit organizations whose work is related to class interests. This opinion addresses settlement-class certification, settlement approval, and attorneys’ fees. As part of…