A legal action taken by two former senior executives at Independent News and Media (INM) over an alleged breach of their electronic data in 2014, has been settled.
In a statement, Mediahuis, which bought INM in 2019, said it was pleased to confirm that it had reached agreement with Karl Brophy and Gavin O'Reilly over their historical claims against INM.
It said these "legacy issues" were inherited as part of its acquisition of INM and it was happy to have resolved them.
It said the terms of the settlement were strictly confidential and it had no further comment to make.
Gavin O’Reilly was chief executive of INM between 2009 and 2012.
Mr Brophy was the company’s director of corporate affairs between 2011 and 2012.
Legal actions taken by a number of people over the data breach have previously heard that the "interrogation" of INM data by an external company was allegedly done at the direction of former INM chairman Leslie Buckley.
The High Court has previously been told the interrogation was paid for by a company owned by Denis O’Brien who was at the time INM’s biggest shareholder.
Nineteen people were on a list of people whose data was allegedly violated and a number of settlements have already been finalised.
Two inspectors, Senior Counsel Seán Gillane and British solicitor Richard Fleck, were appointed by the High Court in 2018 on the application of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement to investigate.
Mediahuis is suing Mr Buckley in connection with the data breach in an action begun by INM in 2018.
The High Court was told at that stage that INM wanted to recover from Mr Buckley, the cost of any damage caused by alleged wrongdoing on his part.
Mr Buckley has denied any wrongdoing and the court heard that he claimed the data interrogation was part of a cost-cutting exercise.
In a short statement, Mr Brophy and Mr O’Reilly said they were pleased to confirm their proceedings against Mediahuis and Leslie Buckley had been settled "on satisfactory terms."
