CafePress was responsible for a 2019 data breach that compromised the personal information of 22 million consumers. | stock photo
CafePress was responsible for a 2019 data breach that compromised the personal information of 22 million consumers. | stock photo
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced that a group of seven states will receive a $2 million settlement from CafePress due to a 2019 data breach, according to Michigan.gov.
The data breach endangered the personal information of about 22 million users. That number includes over 474,900 in Michigan.
CafePress is an online retailer of user-customized products, based in Louisville, Kentucky. The breach exposed consumer names, email addresses, passwords, home addresses and phone numbers. Social Security numbers were also jeopardized in some cases, as well as credit card numbers.
Attorney General Dana Nessel
| Michigan.gov
Nessel commented on the litigation and the settlement in a press release on Michigan.gov: “As a growing number of services and customer-driven amenities become available online, a consumer’s personal information is more at risk now than ever before. While there are steps we as consumers can take to protect our own personal information from falling into the wrong hands, companies must also take appropriate measures to safeguard that data to ensure their customers are protected from predatory attempts to capitalize on that information.”
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