Nonprofit service provider Blackbaud settles data breach case for $49.5M with states

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The fundraising software company Blackbaud agreed Thursday to pay $49.5 million to settle claims brought by the attorneys general of all 50 states related to a 2020 data breach that exposed sensitive information from 13,000 nonprofits. Health information, Social Security numbers and the financial information of donors or clients of the nonprofits, universities, hospitals and religious organizations that the company serves was the type of data that was exposed in the breach, according to Indiana

The fundraising software company Blackbaud agreed Thursday to pay $49.5 million to settle claims brought by the attorneys general of all 50 states related to a 2020 data breach that exposed sensitive information from 13,000 nonprofits.

Blackbaud, which offers software for fundraising and data management to nonprofits, first publicly acknowledged that an outside actor had gained access to its data on July 16, 2020, but downplayed the extent and sensitivity of the information that had been stolen, the attorneys general said. Over a million files were exposed in the breach.

Indiana will receive almost $3.6 million under the terms of the settlement, the most of any state, Rokita's office said. -- The Keystone crude pipeline, a vital artery transporting Canadian oil to markets in the US and overseas, is operating at about half of its capacity Wednesday after being halted for maintenance work. Most Read from BloombergAlmost Anyone Can Become the House Speaker, Except Donald TrumpOnly an Equities Crash Can Rescue the Bond Market, Barclays SaysKey Taiwan Tech Firms Helping Huawei With China Chip PlantsOzempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart SaysApple Considered, RejectDr.

 

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