Absolute Dental $3.3M Data Breach Settlement: Claims and Deadlines

If you received a notice from Absolute Dental Group about the 2025 data breach, you can file a claim under the Absolute Dental settlement for up to $5,000 in documented out-of-pocket losses plus a pro rata cash payment from a $3.3 million fund. The deadline to submit a claim is June 18, 2026. A federal judge in Nevada granted preliminary approval on March 10, 2026, and a final approval hearing is set for July 30, 2026.¹² No payments go out until after the court grants final approval.

What You Can Claim

The settlement offers two payment tracks, and you can be eligible for both.

Documented loss payment up to $5,000. This covers out-of-pocket costs tied to the breach: bank fees, phone charges, postage, gas for local travel, and fees you paid for credit reports, credit monitoring, or identity theft insurance. You have to back the claim up with paperwork such as bank statements, receipts, invoices, or phone records. A personal statement by itself is not enough.²
Cash fund payment. Every class member who files a valid claim gets a pro rata share of whatever is left in the fund after documented losses, attorney fees, litigation costs, service awards, and administration are paid. The per-person amount depends on how many people file.²

California residents who lived in the state at the time of the breach can receive an enhanced payment worth up to twice the standard pro rata amount.³

Attorney fees will not exceed one-third of the fund (up to $1.1 million), and each of the five named plaintiffs may receive $2,500 for their role in the case, subject to court approval.²

Who Is Eligible

The class includes all living U.S. residents whose personal information was potentially compromised in the breach, including everyone who received a notice from Absolute Dental about the incident. The class is estimated at about 1.22 million people.¹ Although Absolute Dental only operates in Nevada, the affected patients live across the country, and state breach notifications went to Oregon, Montana, Texas, and other regulators.⁴

Excluded are the presiding judges and their staff, officers and directors of Absolute Dental and Judge Consulting, and anyone who submits a valid opt-out.²

Deadlines and How to File

The settlement is administered by Epiq. Claims can be filed online at AbsoluteDataSettlement.com (the portal opened April 10, 2026) or mailed to the administrator. Questions go to (877) 239-0776.⁵²

Claim deadline: June 18, 2026.²
Opt-out or object: June 9, 2026. Opt-outs must be submitted individually; group opt-outs are not allowed. Objections must explain why the court should not approve the settlement.⁶
Final approval hearing: July 30, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas.²

What Happens If You Do Nothing

If you are in the class and do not opt out, you are bound by the settlement whether or not you file a claim, meaning you cannot sue Absolute Dental separately over the breach. Opting out preserves your right to sue but forfeits any payment. The release covers Absolute Dental only; it does not release claims against Judge Consulting, Inc., the IT provider whose account was used in the intrusion.⁶

What Was Exposed

Between February 19 and March 5, 2025, an unauthorized third party accessed Absolute Dental’s network through a Judge Consulting account, according to notification letters that described “the inadvertent execution of a malicious version of a legitimate software tool.”⁷ The compromised data included names, contact information, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, health information, health insurance details, and financial information for 1,223,635 people.⁸ Given the sensitivity of that information, filing a documented-loss claim is worth doing if you have paid for credit monitoring, dealt with fraud, or spent money responding to the breach in any way. Absolute Dental has not admitted wrongdoing as part of the settlement.⁹

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ClassAction.org. Jordan et al. v. Absolute Dental Group LLC et al. Preliminary Approval
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Absolute Data Settlement. Settlement FAQ
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HIPAA Journal. Absolute Dental Data Breach
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PR Newswire. Individuals Who Received Notice From Absolute Dental Group Could Receive a Payment From a Class Action Settlement
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Montana Department of Justice. Consumer Notification Letter
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