FTC slams Blackbaud for “shoddy security” after hacker stole data belonging to thousands of non-profits and millions of people
Data and software services firm Blackbaud's cybersecurity was criticised as
"lax" and "shoddy" by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a
damning post-mortem of the business’s February 2020 data breach.
According to the FTC, Blackbaud’s poor security breach in February 2020 led to a
hacker accessing the company’s customer databases and stealing personal
information of millions of consumers in the United States, Canada, the UK, and
the Netherlands.
Blackbaud’s affected customers a