Dartmouth Oracle EBS Data Breach Settlement — $75 or Up to $5,000

Data Breach · Claims Open

Current Status

Claims are open. The claim form has to be submitted online by 11:59 p.m. Central Time on October 21, 2026, or mailed to the settlement administrator postmarked by that same date. October 6, 2026 is the deadline to exclude yourself or to object. The Honorable Alan D. Albright has scheduled the final approval hearing for November 5, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. Central Time in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. No final approval order has been entered and no payment date has been announced. Nothing in this settlement is paid automatically, so a class member who wants the cash or the credit monitoring has to file a claim.

What Changed Recently?

Trustees of Dartmouth College has agreed to a $750,000 settlement resolving the claims against it in In re Oracle Corporation Data Breach Litigation, a consolidated case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The court authorized notice to the class, and the claim period is now running.

According to the settlement notice, the case concerns a cybersecurity incident involving Oracle E-Business Suite, the enterprise software Dartmouth used. The notice describes the incident as resulting from a zero-day — that is, previously unknown — vulnerability in the Oracle EBS software that allowed an unauthorized actor to access certain Private Information from the environments of many of Oracle's EBS customers, Dartmouth's among them. Dartmouth sent notice of the incident in November 2025. Private Information is defined for this settlement as personally identifiable information consisting of some combination of names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and financial account information.

Dartmouth is one of a number of defendants in the consolidated litigation that used Oracle's EBS application, and this settlement covers the claims against Dartmouth alone. Dartmouth denies the legal claims and denies any wrongdoing or liability. The court has not decided in favor of either side and has made no determination that any law was violated; the parties agreed to settle to avoid the risk, cost and time of continuing the case. The notice also states that a class member's decision to stay in the class or to exclude themselves will not affect their ability to participate in any future settlement with a non-settling defendant.

Who Qualifies?

The settlement class is every living individual residing in the United States who was sent notice by Dartmouth that their Private Information may have been impacted in the data incident. Membership turns on having been sent that notice, which is also what carries the credentials needed to file online.

The notice excludes five groups from the class: Dartmouth's directors, officers, members and agents, along with its subsidiaries, affiliated companies and any entity in which Dartmouth has a controlling interest; governmental entities; the judge assigned to the case, that judge's immediate family and court staff; anyone a court of competent jurisdiction finds guilty under criminal law of initiating, causing, aiding or abetting the incident, or who pleads nolo contendere to such a charge; and any class member who validly and timely excludes themselves.

How Much Can You Get?

The settlement offers three benefits, all elected on the same claim form.

Cash Payment A reimburses documented out-of-pocket losses related to the data incident, up to $5,000 per class member. The notice gives telephone records, correspondence including emails, and receipts as examples of reasonable documentation. A personal certification, declaration or affidavit does not count as documentation on its own, though it may be submitted to give context to other records. Expenses already reimbursed from another source cannot be claimed again, including anything covered by the credit monitoring and identity theft protection product Dartmouth offered with its notification letter.