- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Adrianne Appel2022-10-17T17:37:00
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.
Zoetop didn’t know where on its system it stored customer credit card information, James alleged. It allowed some credit card transaction information to be stored in plain text, she said, and used an algorithm to protect customer passwords that was known to be weak.
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