Zappos, Amazon sued over customer data breach

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Online retailers Zappos.com and Amazon.com are being sued in Kentucky by a Texas woman alleging that she and millions of other customers were harmed by the release of personal account information.

Officials representing Zappos in Nevada and parent company Amazon in Seattle declined comment today on the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville, Ky.

The lawsuit was filed Monday, after Zappos chief executive Tony Hsieh alerted employees and customers by email Sunday that names, phone numbers and email addresses of the shoe retailer's customer may have been accessed in a hacker attack. The company said customers' credit card and payment information weren't stolen.

Zappos urged customers to reset passwords to Zappos.com accounts and any other websites where they use similar passwords.

Zappos said the hacker gained access to its internal network and systems through one of the company's servers in Kentucky. Zappos is based in Henderson, near Las Vegas. It is owned by Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc.