Dunkin' Donuts drops some dough to glaze over lawsuit accusing it of covering up customer account hacks

Dunkin' Donuts drops some dough to glaze over lawsuit accusing it of covering up customer account hacks

Dunkin' Donuts today settled a lawsuit in which it was accused of hushing up the fact hackers siphoned its customers' personal information from its systems in 2015.


The US coffee-and-pastry slinger will refund said customers as part of an agreement [PDF] that will end a lawsuit brought against it by New York. The US state claimed Dunkin failed to warn its sugar addicts that miscreants had gained access to their DD accounts, downloaded their details, and sold them on underground internet forums. That information included their Dunkin' loyalty card details, which miscreants could use to buy stuff from the coffee houses using money stored on the cards.


In addition to refunding its sugar ..

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