Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, PRIVACY—E-retailer pays penalty for data breach exposing credit card numbers, (Aug 8, 2016)

By Andrew A. Turner, J.D.

EZcontactsUSA.com must pay $100,000 in penalties and reform business practices, under a settlement with New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s office, for a data breach resulting in the potential exposure of over 25,000 credit card numbers and other cardholder data. Schneiderman’s office found that EZContactsUSA.com never provided notice to its customers or law enforcement about the breach and misrepresented the safety and security of its website.

The settlement requires EZcontactsUSA.com to conduct thorough and expeditious investigations of any future data security breaches, maintain reasonable security policies and procedures designed to protect the personal information of consumers, and "to remediate the many security vulnerabilities contained in its website." EZcontactsUSA.com must also train employees with the most up-to-date data security practices.

Companies: EZcontactsUSA.com

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