Zoetop, parent company to online clothing retailers SHEIN and ROMWE, agreed to pay $1.9 million as part of a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s Office for failing to properly protect customer information compromised during a 2018 data breach.

Zoetop did not properly protect customer data before or after the breach and “downplayed the extent” of the incident, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in an Oct. 12 press release.

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