Petco Cyberattack Serves as Useful Reminder of Best Practices for Preventing Data Breach
By EsqSocial Corporation 28/12/20
A putative consumer class action filed in California state court on Friday the 18th against Petco Animal Supplies Stores Inc. (Petco) and its wholly owned subsidiary PupBox Inc. (PupBox) alleges that between February and August an “unauthorized plugin” on the PupBox website caused the personal and credit card information of approximately 30,000 consumers to be stolen by an unauthorized third party. The complaint asserts, on information and belief, that the cyberattack resulted from the...
By: Lowenstein Sandler LLP