Community Dental Care Data Breach Settlement: What You Can Claim

Yes. The monitoring benefit is offered to all Class Members, separately from the choice between the two cash options.

• You may enroll in the two-year monitoring benefit and also make one cash claim.
• For cash, you must choose either the documented-loss option or the $50 alternative payment. You cannot receive both cash options.

The documented-loss option can pay up to $5,000. It is for qualifying financial losses, not a payment for time spent dealing with the breach.

• The loss must be an actual, unreimbursed, out-of-pocket loss caused by the data breach.
• It must have occurred from December 20, 2024, through October 19, 2026.
• Examples include identity-theft or fraud losses, certain credit-reporting or credit-freeze fees, replacement-ID costs, and postage for contacting banks.
• Lost time and other non-monetary losses are not covered.
• You cannot claim an expense already reimbursed by another party.

Documentation is required for the documented-loss option. In contrast, the $50 alternative cash payment does not require proof or an explanation.

• Send records such as bank statements or receipts.
• The records should show when the loss happened, how much was spent or lost, and that it resulted from the data breach.
• You may include notes you prepared yourself to explain other records, but notes alone are not enough.

The notice says enrollment codes were sent by postcard; contact the administrator if yours is missing. The notice uses both CyEx Medical Shield Pro and Complete. The official enrollment-instruction request page uses Complete. Ask the administrator to confirm the actual product and activation requirements.

The separate website request lets you log in with your Login ID and PIN to request an email reminder with enrollment instructions after the settlement becomes final. This request is not itself enrollment. The cash claim form has no monitoring checkbox, and the notice is unclear about whether that form is also needed for monitoring. Confirm the required steps and any enrollment deadline with the administrator.

Checked September 9, 2026: https://www.CDDataBreach.com/form/email-request/ and the official notice and claim form at https://www.CDDataBreach.com/.

• The service includes up to $1 million in medical identity-theft insurance.
• It monitors healthcare-insurance ID exposure, Medical Record Number (MRN) exposure, and unauthorized Health Savings Account spending.
• A fraud-resolution agent is available if suspicious activity occurs.

A Claim Form is required for either cash option. The notice and form overview clearly make the $5,000 documented-loss option and $50 alternative cash payment mutually exclusive, despite inconsistent section references beside the form checkboxes. Select only one cash option and ask the administrator about any confusing form fields.

Official claim form checked September 9, 2026: https://cw.simpluris.com/docs/public/downloads/CDC8/CLAIM_FORM. For help call (866) 675-2314 or email [email protected].

• File a cash claim online by October 19, 2026, or use the signed official paper form with required supporting documents.
• The notice says mailed claims must be postmarked by October 19, 2026, while pages 1 and 3 of the official claim form say received by that date. Send early enough for receipt and ask the administrator to clarify if the difference affects you.
• The claim form also permits emailing an image of the completed form to [email protected] by October 19, 2026.
• The paper form requires your Login ID and PIN. Contact the administrator if you do not have them. Mail to Community Dental Care Data Breach Settlement, c/o Settlement Administrator, PO Box 25226, Santa Ana, CA 92799-9958.

The scheduled final approval hearing is November 23, 2026. That hearing date does not mean payments will be sent then.

• The court must first grant final approval.
• Any appeals must also be resolved before payments are distributed.
• The notice does not provide a payment date.

Doing nothing does not submit a claim or obtain a cash payment.

• You will not receive a settlement benefit.
• If you do not opt out, you remain in the settlement and give up the rights described in the settlement release, including the ability to bring or join another lawsuit against Community Dental Care about claims covered by the settlement.

Opting out means leaving the settlement. You will not receive settlement benefits, but you keep any rights you may have to pursue your own claim about the issues in this case. You may exclude only yourself, not another person.

• Send a written Request for Exclusion by September 24, 2026.
• Include the case name and number, your full name, current mailing address, telephone number, email address, personal signature, and a statement that you want to be excluded.
• Use notice Question 15 for the complete instructions. Submit or postmark by September 24, 2026, by mail to the Settlement Administrator, Attention: Exclusion Request, PO Box 25226, Santa Ana, CA 92799, or by email to [email protected].

An objection tells the court why you think it should not approve some or all of the settlement. It does not remove you from the settlement.

• You must remain in the settlement; people who opt out cannot object.
• File a complete written objection with the Clerk of Court by September 24, 2026.
• Also send a copy to the Settlement Administrator, Class Counsel, and Community Dental Care’s counsel by that date.
• The objection must include identifying information, proof of Class Member status, your reasons and any supporting material, and your signature. The notice lists additional requirements if you have a lawyer, seek to speak at the hearing, or plan to offer witnesses or documents.
• Follow notice Question 16 for all nine requirements and each recipient address, including prior class-action objections, any proposed appearance and witness information, and your personal signature; a lawyer signature alone is insufficient.