The popular online stationary and craft marketplace Minted Inc. has been sued in a class action under California’s new consumer privacy law, which allows for thousand-dollar per violation penalties, for allegedly mismanaging customer’s’ personal information following a massive data breach revealed last month.
According to the complaint, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California, hackers going by the name Shiny Hunters stole 73.2 million records containing personally identifying information from 11 companies, Minted among them.
On May 6, 2020, Shiny Hunters attempted to sell the data on the dark web. Minted was allegedly unaware of ...
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