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Securities class action settlement

Company: Hut 8

Subject kind
regulatory
Statement date
2026-08-22
Promised amount
2350000.0 USD
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Hut 8 received court-approved notice for a US$2,350,000 securities class action settlement for investors who acquired securities between 13 February 2023 and 18 January 2024

Source (primary)

Hut 8 (HUT) Gets Court Approved Notice For $2,350,000 Settlement - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The proposed settlement for Hut 8 is set at US$2,350,000 and is intended for investors who bought or acquired Hut 8 securities in the US or on a US based exchange between 13 February 2023 and 18 January 2024”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 14, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/hut-8-hut-gets-court-140715632.html) in full (10,506 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Hut 8 (HUT) Gets Court Approved Notice For $2,350,000 Settlement - Yahoo Finance

Quote: “The proposed settlement for Hut 8 is set at US$2,350,000 and is intended for investors who bought or acquired Hut 8 securities in the US or on a US based exchange between 13 February 2023 and 18 January 2024”

View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗

Record of changes

August 31, 2026 — statedlater found incorrect
Automated extraction from the cited source. Recorded automatically from the cited source when it was published, then queued for evidence review.
September 1, 2026 — withdrawnlater found incorrect
Evidence review against the cited source. The source describes the settlement as 'proposed,' indicating it has not yet been approved, contradicting the claim's assertion that Hut 8 'received court-approved notice.'.
September 2, 2026 — stated
Correction after re-verification. Re-verification found the cited source does support this claim. The earlier withdrawal was made in error and has been reversed. The attributed quote appears verbatim in the cited source (deterministic check).