Deal documents are worth a fortune for days and nothing after. There is no ransom note, because publication destroys the value.
A commercial claimant holds the contract, can quantify the loss and can fund discovery — which is where security practice actually gets examined.
The only accountability mechanism operating on the same timescale as the incidents — and it is triggered by disclosure rather than by harm.
A record aggregate is entirely compatible with per-person recovery falling. Both statements describe 2025.
The litigation mechanism this corpus calls the fastest accountability route suppresses the most useful output an incident can produce.
The claimant must prove a causal link that banks, regulators and the defendant cannot establish with far greater resources.
Divided among 50,000 people it is $99. Divided among five million it is under a dollar. The class size was not published.
A settlement fund is not an assessment of harm. It is the price of resolving a dispute — here, $6.60 a head.
Per-capita recovery falls as the class grows. The largest incidents in this database have the weakest claim on the mechanism.