Status: In progress

Borovoy, et al. v. Squishable.com Inc.

The plaintiff claims Squishable failed to protect its customers’ sensitive personally identifiable information during a 2022 data breach the company disclosed in March.

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Abraham Jewett  |  May 4, 2023

Category: Consumer News

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Squishable data breach class action lawsuit overview: 

  • Who: Christine Borovoy filed a class action lawsuit against Squishable.com Inc. 
  • Why: The plaintiff claims Squishable failed to protect its customers’ sensitive personally identifiable information during a 2022 data breach the company disclosed in March. 
  • Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in New York federal court. 
  • What are my options: Consumers wishing to better protect their own data may be interested in Norton LifeLock.

Technology company and toy manufacturer Squishable failed to “exercise reasonable care” in protecting its customers’ sensitive personal information during a 2022 data breach disclosed by the company in March, a class action alleges. 

Plaintiff Christine Borovoy claims Squishable, which sells toy plushies in a variety of themes, notified its customers on or around March 2 that a data breach had exposed their sensitive personally identifiable information. 

Borovoy argues Squishable revealed the data breach compromised the sensitive personally identifiable information of an estimated 15,961 individuals. 

“Squishable explained in the Notice that it discovered its website contained code that allowed a third party to view and capture information that was entered on its checkout page as customers made purchases,” the Squishable class action states.

Borovoy wants to represent a nationwide class and Illinois subclass of individuals who had their personally identifiable information compromised during the breach. 

Squishable should have known data breach event was ‘highly foreseeable,’ class action says 

Squishable’s alleged failure to secure its customers’ data was “particularly egregious,” since there have been an increasing number of data breaches and data security attacks recently, making the event “highly foreseeable,” the Squishable class action alleges. 

Borovoy argues that, due to the data breach, affected Squishable customers are at “an imminent risk of identity theft,” and that there is evidence the stolen data has been targeted, accessed, and “may have been disseminated on the Dark Web.” 

“The risk of identity theft is not speculative or hypothetical but is impending and has materialized,” the Squishable class action states.

Personally identifiable information exposed in the data breach includes names, email addresses, physical addresses, and full payment card information, according to the Squishable class action. 

The plaintiff claims Squishable is guilty of negligence, unjust enrichment, breach of express and implied contract and invasion of privacy, as well as of violating Illinois’ Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practice Act

The plaintiff is demanding a jury trial and requesting declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of actual, nominal, consequential and punitive damages for herself and all class members. 

Last month, streaming platform Kodi confirmed it suffered a data breach it discovered after finding its MyBB software was being advertised for sale on internet forums. 

Are you affected by the Squishable data breach? Let us know in the comments. 

The plaintiffs are represented by Mason A. Barney of Siri & Glimstad LLP and Marcus J. Bradley, Kiley L. Grombacher and Fernando Valle Jr. of Bradley/Grombacher LLP. 

The Squishable data breach class action lawsuit is Borovoy, et al. v. Squishable.com Inc., Case No. 1:23-cv-03660, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.


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8 thoughts onCustomer files class action against Squishable following data breach

  1. Royccie Jackson says:

    Following

  2. Barbara Romero says:

    I pray mine information is ok. Please add me because I brought quite a few for my granddaughter

  3. Amy says:

    They are definently hurting from this and just firing employees to make up costs for this.

  4. Andrea says:

    Addme

  5. Beliza says:

    I never thought about this but I was a victim of random theft and had my checking account cleared out in February/March of 2022. We never found the source other than a fake name and bank app that I have never used. The account was new and I didn’t have active credit cards. I randomly had information on their site for my friend’s daughter I watched all of the time…makes me wonder…

  6. Tabbetha says:

    Please add me. I have bought several Squishables for my 2 grandkids

  7. Carol Davis says:

    I am a customer of Squishables. Please add me.

  8. Willie Stokes says:

    Please add me

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