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  1. 2020

    Class action lawsuit filed against Minted over data breach

    Lawsuit filed

    Consumers filed a class action lawsuit against Minted, alleging that it violated the CCPA by failing to maintain reasonable security procedures and exposing customer data. The lawsuit followed a breach in which hackers obtained customer information.

    Company response

    • Investigation — Minted

      Minted claims that it is continuing to investigate the incident

    • Remediation — Minted

      has since enhanced its security

    Source excerpt

    • The Shiny Hunters hacking group obtained customers' personally identifiable information from Minted's user database on May 6, 2020, and later attempted to sell 5 million of the records.
    • The complaint against the San Francisco-based company was filed on June 11, 2020, by San Diego-based law firm MoginRubin LLP in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit, one of the first California Consumer Privacy Act cases filed in federal court, alleges that Minted violated the CCPA when it failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices, and ultimately exposed the data of millions of its customers.
    Source