Well that didn’t take long … last week we learned of the Zappos data breach, This week Zappos and its parent Amazon were named in a class action lawsuit claiming the shoe retailer didn’t adequately protect customers’ information.

According to the Associate Press, “Zappos alerted employees and customers by email Sunday that names, phone numbers, and email addresses of its customers may have been accessed in a hacker attack. The company said customers’ credit card and payment information weren’t stolen.”

The AP also reported, “The civil negligence lawsuit seeks unspecified millions of dollars in compensatory and exemplary damages for emotional distress and loss of privacy, along with a court order for the company to pay for customer credit monitoring and identity theft insurance and periodic audits to ensure customer data is secure.”

If data breaches are happening to the big companies like Zappos, how exposed is your company? Do you have the necessary compliance parameters in place to satisfy the feds, state and the plaintiffs’ attorneys in the event of a breach? Do you have the proper insurance in place as well?

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