Microsoft-owned talk-to-text outfit Nuance has agreed to cough up $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the sprawling MOVEit Transfer mega-breach – although it admits no liability.

MOVEit victim count latest: 2.6K+ orgs hit, 77M+ people's data stolen

The proposed deal [PDF], filed in a Massachusetts federal court last week, would draw a line under litigation brought by individuals who claimed that the company failed to properly secure personal information later snatched by attackers exploiting Progress Software's MOVEit vulnerability.

Nuance, best known for its medical transcription and speech recognition systems, was one of hundreds of organizations caught in the blast radius of the Clop ransomware gang's 2023 mass exploitation of MOVEit Transfer. Court filings state that

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