Hire Velocity Data Breach Settlement: $40 With No Proof or Up to $2,000 With Receipts, Plus Two Years of Credit Monitoring — but the Notice Lists Two Different Web Addresses. Claim Deadline November 30, 2026.

If Hire Velocity sent you a letter in 2025 saying your information may have been exposed, the hire velocity data breach settlement lets you choose one cash option and add credit monitoring on top. In the words of the court-authorized notice: “Cash Payment A – Out-of-Pocket Losses: Reimbursement of up to $2,000 for documented out-of-pocket losses arising from the Data Incident; or … Cash Payment B – Alternate Cash: An alternate cash payment of $40.” No documentation is required for the $40. Separately, “Settlement Class Members may choose to receive two years of Credit Monitoring” — three-bureau monitoring, dark web and Social Security number scans, real-time alerts, a security freeze and $1 million in insurance coverage.

The claim deadline is November 30, 2026: online by 11:59 p.m. Eastern, or by mail postmarked by that date. Nothing is paid now. The notice says benefits “will be distributed as soon as possible, if and when the Court grants Final Approval of the Settlement and after any appeals are resolved.” The final approval hearing is set for December 15, 2026, so payments will not go out before then.

Hire Velocity, LLC is a talent-acquisition firm. According to the notice, on or about February 17, 2025 it became aware of “suspicious activity on its computer systems and network”, and on or about April 15, 2025 it learned that a third party may have accessed files with information about certain employees, contractors and clients — “first and last names and Social Security numbers.” Notice letters went out on or about May 16, 2025. The plaintiffs allege negligence, negligence per se, breach of implied contract, unjust enrichment, breach of confidence and a claim for declaratory relief; Hire Velocity “denies all of the Plaintiffs’ claims and maintains that it did not do anything wrong.”

The class is “all living individuals residing in the United States who were sent a written notice from the Defendant that their Private Information may have been compromised in the Data Incident affecting the Defendant in approximately February 2025.” The breach letter is the test: if you did not get one, you are not in the class. Hire Velocity’s directors and officers, government entities and the judge and court staff are excluded.

The case began in federal court. Federal dockets show Robert v. Hire Velocity, LLC, No. 1:25-cv-02872, filed in the Northern District of Georgia on May 23, 2025 before Judge Jean-Paul Boulee, and Sanchez v. Hire Velocity, LLC, No. 1:25-cv-02942, filed May 28, 2025 and closed on June 2, 2025; a consolidated amended complaint for all three later class representatives followed on July 2, 2025. The settlement itself was filed in the State Court of Fulton County under No. 26EV000358. The notice does not give the number of people who received breach letters, and we have not found that figure in an official source.

Here the amounts are fixed in the notice rather than estimated from a shared pot. The $40 is a flat payment. The up-to-$2,000 option reimburses losses you can document, including fraud or identity-theft losses; fees for lawyers, accountants or credit repair; costs of freezing or unfreezing your credit; credit monitoring you bought “on or after May 16, 2025 through November 15, 2026”; and smaller costs like postage, notary, copying and mileage. Receipts, phone records and emails count as documentation; “Personal certifications, declarations, or affidavits from the Settlement Class Member do not constitute reasonable documentation.” A loss claim without sufficient documentation that is not cured is denied, and expenses already reimbursed elsewhere are not paid twice. You cannot take both the $40 and the loss reimbursement — pick the one that pays you more.

The structure differs from most data breach settlements we cover. The notice names no total fund. It says the company “will pay all Settlement Class Member Benefits, including Cash Payments and Credit Monitoring … Settlement Administration Costs, and any Court-awarded Attorneys’ Fees, Costs, and Service Awards,” and that the requested $185,000 in fees and costs and the $4,000 service awards to each of the three class representatives “will be separately paid from Settlement Class Member Benefits.” The notice contains no language about reducing payments if many people claim. We could not read the settlement agreement itself, so we cannot rule out a cap written there.

To get paid: file a claim by November 30, 2026 (online by 11:59 p.m. ET, or by mail postmarked by that date) to Roberts v. Hire Velocity, LLC, c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, P.O. Box 225391, New York, NY 10150-5391. Attach documentation only if you choose the loss reimbursement. Tick credit monitoring too if you want it; it does not reduce your cash option.

To keep your right to sue separately: mail a signed opt-out request, postmarked no later than November 16, 2026, to the same P.O. box marked “ATTN: Opt-Out Request”, with your full name, address, phone number and a statement that you want to be excluded. If you opt out, you get nothing from this settlement.

To object: file your written objection with the State Court of Fulton County, 185 Shirley C. Franklin Blvd, S.W., Suite J1-G400, Atlanta, GA 30303, no later than November 16, 2026, and mail copies to class counsel, defense counsel and Kroll. You can object and still file a claim.

Do nothing: you receive no benefits and you give up the right to sue Hire Velocity over the incident. The final approval hearing is December 15, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. ET in Courtroom 2F of the Fulton County Courthouse; the notice warns the date may change and points to the settlement website for updates.

The settlement is real: it is a court-authorized notice in a pending case, and the claim mailing address belongs to Kroll Settlement Administration, the administrator named in it. But the notice lists two different web addresses, and we could not confirm which one is live. Question 12 says to file online “at www.HireVelocity.com”, while every other reference — the settlement agreement, the hearing updates, “more information” — points to www.HireVelocitySettlement.com. The settlement website is HireVelocitySettlement.com; www.HireVelocity.com is not named anywhere else in the notice as a claim site. If in doubt, type HireVelocitySettlement.com yourself or call Kroll at (833) 930-1179.

Usual rules apply. The settlement never asks for a fee to file and does not need your full Social Security number by email or text. Be wary of messages that link to look-alike addresses. As of October 15, 2026, the settlement website refused our automated request, so this article relies on the court-authorized notice; any newer update posted on the site takes precedence.

Searchers also ask about Equifax, TransUnion and Yahoo settlements. Those are separate cases with their own administrators, and a Hire Velocity claim does nothing for them; use the official site printed on the notice for that case.

A $40 no-proof payment with up to $2,000 for documented losses is at the low end of recent small data breach settlements. Steel Warehouse offers the same $40 baseline with a higher document cap, and TRC Staffing, another staffing-industry breach, offers more without receipts. What sets Hire Velocity apart is the absence of a stated fund: if the notice’s terms hold, each valid claimant gets the listed amount rather than a share. Class counsel are Raina C. Borrelli of Strauss Borrelli PLLC, Casondra Turner of Milberg, PLLC, and Jonathan M. Streisfeld of Kopelowitz Ostrow P.A. The court still has to approve the deal on December 15, 2026, and appeals could delay payment beyond that.