Denier and Groark v. Taconic Biosciences

Welcome to the Information Website for the Taconic Biosciences Data Breach Settlement

A Settlement Agreement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging that Taconic Biosciences, Inc. ("Taconic" or "Defendant") disclosed to an unauthorized person certain personally identifying information of its present and former employees. This disclosure occurred on or about January 30, 2017 ("Data Disclosure"). The information disclosed included names, addresses, social security numbers, and 2016 income information ("W-2 Data"). If you have been affected by the unauthorized disclosure, you may be entitled to payment under the Settlement Agreement reached in this case.

As part of this Settlement, Taconic has agreed to pay certain types of claims for all Class Members and provide enrollment in an identity theft protection service.

Your legal rights are affected even if you do nothing. Read this website carefully.

Your Options

Submit a Claim Deadline: July 15, 2020	Complete and submit a Claim Form and receive Compensation. By completing and submitting a timely and valid Claim Form, you may recover money or additional credit monitoring and identity theft protection.
Ask to be Excluded Deadline: May 9, 2019	Get out of this lawsuit and get no benefits from it. Instead of submitting a Claim Form, you may ask to be excluded from the lawsuit. By excluding yourself, you cannot recover as part of this settlement and you keep a right to sue on your own.
Object Deadline: June 10, 2019	Object to the terms of the Settlement. You may object to the terms of the Settlement and have your objections heard at the July 15, 2019 Final Approval and Fairness Hearing.
Do Nothing	You will not receive any compensation and you will give up your rights to sue Taconic about the issues raised in this case.