Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM)
Cloud services provider Salesforce.com has been roped into a class-action lawsuit filed in the wake of a data breach at children's clothing boutique Hanna Andersson, which affected an estimated 10,000 California customers.
Lawyers for the affected customers, including John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan, argue that the companies negligently or carelessly exposed personally identifiable information when malware attacked Hanna's e-commerce platform, and Salesforce "failed to detect the breach for almost three months," according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Alaina Lancaster
Alaina Lancaster, based in San Francisco, covers disruptive trends and technologies shaping the future of law. She authors the weekly legal futurist newsletter What's Next. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @a_lancaster3
