British Airways (LON:IAG) has agreed to a settlement with hundreds of thousands of passengers and staff over a huge data breach at the airline in 2018.
Personal data of around 420,000 people was compromised.
At the time, the airline, which is owned by International Consolidated Airlines, said it would compensate any passengers who were financially affected.
Law firm PGMBM said that the amount or the settlement was confidential but those affected would receive recompense from British Airways without any admission of liability by the airline.
British Airways in an emailed statement to Reuters said it was pleased it has been able to settle the group action.
The airline had already received a fine of £20mln related to the hack, which at the time was the biggest penalty imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office.
A much heavier £183mln fine was mooted but reduced after representations from BA and because of the impact of Covid-19 on its financial situation.
Details of people’s names, addresses, payment card numbers and verification codes were accessed said the ICO with 77,000 customers having both their card number and verification code stolen.
ICO said its investigators found that BA did not detect the attack on 22 June 2018 but was alerted by a third party more than two months afterwards.
Shares in IAG rose 1.6% to 191.9p.