( February 11, 2026, 5:02 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — A Missouri federal judge on Feb. 10 granted final approval to a $2.5 million nonreversionary class settlement resolving data privacy claims arising from Panera LLC’s 2024 data security breach involving unauthorized access to the names and Social Security numbers of the company’s employees, authorizing reimbursements of up to $500 in ordinary losses and up to $6,500 in extraordinary losses; following a separate data breach in January, Panera has been named as the defendant in a series of class complaints in the same court....