Florida joins lawsuit accusing TP-Link of misleading customers about router safety

The case adds to state pressure on TP-Link as federal limits still block its newest consumer routers in the US.

Florida has joined Iowa, Nebraska, and Montana in suing TP-Link, accusing the router maker of misleading customers about security risks and its ties to China. The case matters because state officials say the company’s routers have been used by Chinese state-backed hackers and because federal scrutiny is already limiting what TP-Link can sell in the US. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said TP-Link’s claims about safe routers, a break from China, and U.S. production in Vietnam are false. The FCC’s consumer-router ban has no TP-Link exemption yet, so its newest Wi‑Fi 8 routers cannot be sold in the US, although earlier approved models can still remain on sale.