How much compensation can you claim for the Virgin Media data breach?

As a victim of the recent Virgin media data breach, you may be wondering how much compensation you could be entitled to claim as a result of the cybersecurity incident.

As part of our recent highly successful media outreach campaign, we spoke to mainstream outlets and gave our estimates based on the potential impact of the event to the victims. As a leading consumer rights and data breach compensation law firm, representing thousands of claimants in over 35 different data actions, we’re well placed to be able to estimate the possible pay-outs.

Here’s some more information about the potential estimates that we have provisionally placed on the action following our media outreach campaign.

Virgin Media data breach: how much compensation could be claimed?

In terms of how much compensation could be available for victims of the Virgin Media data breach event, our initial potential estimates have placed a possible value of £4.5bn on the action.

This is based on 900,000 people being eligible to claim an estimated possible pay-out of £5,000.00 each. Whether this will be attainable can depend on several things, like the nature of the data exposed in your case, and how this has impacted you. We must also account for any potential losses and expenses that could be claimed back, which may not have occurred yet.

In some cases, victims could suffer from a severe psychological reaction. This could mean that compensation values are even higher to reflect the nature of the suffering endured.

What can you be entitled to claim for?

When it comes to how much compensation you could be entitled to claim back, it’s useful to know what things you can claim to be able to assess this.

The GDPR allows victims of a data breach like this to be able to claim compensation for the distress caused by the loss of control of personal information. This loss of control is where the power you had to decide who knows certain information about you is taken away from you. This can, understandably, be distressing, as you don’t want everyone and anyone to know every single thing about you.

We can place a value on the level of this distress, which can be based on elements such as:

• How much data has been exposed or misused;
• The nature of the data involved;
• Who data has been exposed to or misused by;
• The personal impact for you, which can differ from person to person.

There can also be losses and expenses to claim back too. If you lost money as a result of a fraud event that’s directly linked to a breach, you could be entitled to recover this money back as part of a compensation case.

This is on top of any compensation for the distress.

Compensation for distress and suffering is usually known as General Damages, and compensation for losses and expenses are usually known as Special Damages.

Joining the Virgin Media data breach compensation action

To know for sure how much compensation you could be entitled to receive, all you need to do is formally join our compensation action for justice.

That way, when we (hopefully) reach the settlement stage, you will be able to recover an amount that’s fair and reflective of the impact that the breach has had on you.

Joining is easy. All you need to do is go to the main part of the website here and complete the forms to get started. With our No Win, No Fee representation, what have you got to lose?

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