John Yanchunis

Proven Verdicts
Class Action Department Lead at Morgan & Morgan
Tampa, FL

About John Yanchunis

John Yanchunis leads Morgan & Morgan's class action department from Tampa and is one of the nation's foremost data-breach litigators, having served as lead counsel in the Yahoo customer data breach litigation, the largest data breach case in history, and in leadership roles in the Equifax, Target, and U.S. Office of Personnel Management breach cases. After graduating magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the law journal, he clerked for two years for U.S. District Judge Carl O. Bue, Jr. He also served as lead counsel for Florida's insurance regulators in their investigation of undisclosed broker compensation across the insurance industry, and was named to the Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers list for 2026.

Proven verdicts and settlements

A federal jury in San Francisco found Google liable for invasion of privacy and intrusion upon seclusion after the company kept collecting data from third-party apps for users who had switched off the Web & App Activity setting. On September 3, 2025, the jury awarded $425,651,947 in compensatory damages and declined to award punitive damages. The award is a single class-wide figure shared by two nationwide classes of about 98 million users, not one person's recovery. The judge refused to set the verdict aside in August 2026, and Google has appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco · 2025Class ActionsRead the full story →
$190 millionSettlement

Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis served as court-appointed co-lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation over Capital One's 2019 data breach, which exposed the personal information of roughly 98 million U.S. customers. The $190 million settlement won final approval in 2022 as one of the largest data breach recoveries in U.S. history.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria) · 2022Class ActionsRead the full story →
$117.5 millionSettlement

As court-appointed lead plaintiffs' counsel, Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis negotiated the $117.5 million settlement resolving claims from Yahoo's 2013-2016 data breaches, the largest theft of personal data in history, touching roughly 3 billion accounts worldwide. Judge Lucy Koh approved the fund in 2020 after rejecting an earlier version as inadequate.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose) · 2020Class ActionsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

South Texas College of Law
J.D., 1980
University of Florida
Undergraduate, 1976

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.