The NSC Settlement is a $9.95 million class action lawsuit resolution for MOVEit file transfer software data breach, which took place back in 2023. In this data breach, the PPI of 1.5 million individuals in the US was potentially compromised. Now, they can get a payment from a class action settlement by submitting a claim on or before May 26, 2025.
To get your portion in the NSC $9.95 settlement amount one is required to submit a claim from. If you are among 1.5 Million US individuals whose personal details were leaked during the 2023 MOVEit data breach, you could get upto $10,000. To check the eligibility criterias and claim form submission process, stay tuned till the end of this article.
| Settlement Amount | $9.95 million |
| Deadline to File Claim | May 26, 2025 |
| Eligibility | U.S. residents affected by May 2023 NSC MOVEit data breach |
| Proof Needed | Unique ID & PIN from Notice Email or by calling 1-888-366-9156 |
| Claim Submission | Online at nscsettlement.com or by mail |
| Ordinary Loss Payout | Up to $2,500 (bank fees, lost time, etc.) |
| Extraordinary Loss Payout | Up to $10,000 (fraud, unreimbursed losses, etc.) |
| Alternative Benefit | Credit Monitoring + ID Theft Protection for 2 years |
Eligibility Criterias
The eligibility criterias to submit a claim form for the National Student Clearinghouse Settlement is available below, go through the listed points to check the details:
- You must be a permanent resident of the United States.
- Additionally, you must have an Email Notice from the Settlement Administrator, which is carry the Unique ID and PIN to submit the claim form.
- Furthermore, your SSN must be the part of the data exposed in the NSC breach which took place from 28 to 31 May 2023, through a flaw in the MOVEit file transfer software.
If you haven’t received any notice from the settlement administration, and you believe that your ‘PII’ were compromised during the MOVEit data breach, you could know about it by dialling the please contact the Settlement Administrator at 1 (888) 366-9156, if your ‘SSN’ was compromised they will give your credentials required to submit the claim form.
How to submit the Claim Form?
There are two ways to submit the claim form for the NSC Settlement, the first one is vai the official website and second is via the mail. Below, we have given the step-by-step instructions to submit the online claim, which is quite easy and takes less time taking.
Before starting the process to submit the NSC Settlement Claim Form, one must prepare the required documents’s scan copy, each size shouldn’t be above 20 mb, and format of file can be jpg, jpeg, png, gif, tif, tiff, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, pdf, txt, rtf, or zip. Now, let’s know the step-by-step instructions:
- Go to the official website of National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Settlement at nscsettlement.com/.
- Now, you will see an option that reads ‘Start Your Claim,’ tap on it and get redirected to the next webpage.
- Here, you will find an option that reads ‘Start Your Claim,’ under the section of ‘File Online,’ click on it.
- Post tapping on the above mentioned option, you will be asked to enter your Unique ID and PIN, fill in the login credentials correctly and hit the Login button to access the claim form.
- Lastly, you have to provide all the required details, attach the scan of documents, and then submit the Claim Form to get an acknowledgement slip of the confirmation.
To submit the claim form via mail, one is required to download the PDF, fill in accurately, attach documents and send it via mail to:
- MOVEit National Student Clearinghouse Settlement Administrator
- P.O. Box 2878
- Portland, OR 97208-2878
Benefits & Payout
Individuals who will submit the NSC settlement claim form are likely to get $2,500 for ordinary losses, which includes documented out-of-pocket expenses such as Bank fees, credit monitoring costs, communication charges, and up to four hours of lost time, which is compensated at hourly $25.
Incase of the extraordinary losses, one can ett iup to $10,000 for significant, documented financial damages such as unreimbursed monetary losses, fraud damages, professional fees, credit repair costs. Alternatively, one can get upto to $100 payment based on the number of valid claims submitted.
Instead of cash payment, a few claimants will be able to avail the benefits of Credit Monitoring and Identity Theft Protection, which includes two years of free services of Three-bureau credit monitoring (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion), and real-time fraud alerts and dark web monitoring, and up to $1 million in identity theft insurance coverage.