The board of Block Inc., a financial technology company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, is facing a shareholder lawsuit alleging an unregistered shares sale and failure to take cautionary measures for a data breach.
The derivative lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, claimed that Block sold unregistered shares as part of a $29 billion all-stock deal to buy Afterpay Ltd., a buy-now-pay-later tech developer. The shares didn’t qualify for an exemption from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s registration requirements, the suit said.
Block’s money-transfer service Cash App suffered a data breach in ...
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