The memorandum notes that the plaintiffs do not know the total number of users who meet the definition of the Google+ Class, but they estimate that under 10 million users in the United States had account settings which could have exposed their personal information by the second breach.
The settlement will benefit: “All persons residing in the United States who: (1) had a consumer Google+ account for any period of time between January 1, 2015, and Apand (2) had their non-public Profile Information exposed as a result of the software bugs Google announced on October 8, 2018, and December 10, 2018.”
In addition, profile fields like users’ occupations and places where they lived could have also been taken, according to the recent settlement memorandum. The Google data breach reportedly occurred between October to December 2018 and compromised a variety of information such as Google+ users’ names, genders, and email addresses.