The Warren Sun

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced that a coalition of seven states will receive a $2 million settlement from CafePress due to a 2019 data breach, according to Michigan.gov.

The breach compromised the personal information of about 22 million users. That number included more than 474,900 in Michigan.

CafePress is online retailer of user-customized products, based in Louisville, Kentucky. The breach jeopardized consumer names, email addresses, passwords, home addresses and phone numbers. Social Security numbers were also compromised in some cases, as well as credit card numbers.

Attorney General Dana Nessel | Michigan.gov

Nessel commented on the suit and the compromise in a press release on Michigan.gov: “As a growing number of services and customer-driven amenities become available online, a consumer’s personal information is more at risk now than ever before. While there are steps we as consumers can take to protect our own personal information from falling into the wrong hands, companies must also take appropriate measures to safeguard that data to ensure their customers are protected from predatory attempts to capitalize on that information.”