Blackbaud, which had data on millions of people stolen from it by one or more crooks, has promised to shore up its IT defenses in a proposed deal with the FTC.
In announcing the draft settlement, the US watchdog’s boss Lina Khan, Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, and Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya blasted Blackbaud – a cloud software provider for schools, charities, and other orgs – for its “unfair and deceptive data security practices” in a statement [PDF].
“The FTC charges that Blackbaud’s reckless data retention practices rendered its security failures much more costly: by hoarding reams of data that it did not reasonably need, Blackbaud’s breach exposed far more data,” they said.
