Shopify facing another lawsuit from crypto holders over Ledger data breach
The e-commerce giant is in the hot seat again for its alleged role in making the hacked Ledger user data available to malicious actors. Global e-commerce platform Shopify and hardware wallet maker Ledger face a major legal hurdle as a group of Ledger users have filed a class-action lawsuit for its part in failing to prevent a massive data breach in 2020.The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Delaware on Apr. 1 and alleges that Shopify “repeatedly and profoundly failed to protect its customers’ identities.”Shopify and its third-party data consultant TaskUs are being held....
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Ledger and Shopify are facing a class-action lawsuit over sensitive information regarding 270,000 of Ledger's customers' that was stolen by Shopify employees. Ledger and Shopify have been hit by a class action lawsuit over a major data breach that saw the personal data of 270,000 hard wallet customers stolen between April and June 2020,Phishing scam victims John Chu and Edward Baton filed the lawsuit in California against the crypto wallet provider and its e-commerce partner Shopify on April 6. The Plaintiffs alleged that the firms “negligently allowed, recklessly ignored, and then....
Bitcoin hardware wallet maker Ledger has recently put a spotlight on personal financial security after hackers leaked the details of thousands of customers online. Those who sought to protect themselves from criminals instead were pushed into the line of fire. Now the situation for Ledger has gotten much worse, after an email to customers was distributed informing them of yet another data security issue, this time involving e-commerce merchant partner Shopify and what that company […]
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It seems the review was already in process before the attack ever occured. Popular hardware wallet company Ledger recently announced that they had passed a notable security evaluation, known as SOC 2 Type 1. This certification came following a significant data breach the company suffered in June. Ledger did not, however, decide to conduct its security audit because of the breach, according to comments from a Ledger representative. "Ledger is always seeking to raise the security standards and has been working on getting the attestation prior to the data breach," the representative told....
Rogue actors at e-commerce partner Shopify exposed 20,000 new Ledger customer records, including emails, names, postal addresses and phone numbers.