Residual Pumpkin Entity, the former owner of online retail platform CafePress, must pay $500,000 in redress under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Tuesday addressing allegations CafePress failed to secure consumers’ sensitive personal data and covered up a data breach.

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