diff --git a/Sources/Networking/ETagManager.swift b/Sources/Networking/ETagManager.swift
index db9948a2d1..4d4965ceb6 100644
--- a/Sources/Networking/ETagManager.swift
+++ b/Sources/Networking/ETagManager.swift
@@ -124,8 +124,6 @@ private extension ETagManager {
         return request.url?.absoluteString
     }
 
-    // TODO: delete old data since this isn't backwards compatible
-
     static let suiteNameBase: String  = "revenuecat.etags"
     static var suiteName: String {
         guard let bundleID = Bundle.main.bundleIdentifier else {
diff --git a/Tests/UnitTests/Networking/ETagManagerTests.swift b/Tests/UnitTests/Networking/ETagManagerTests.swift
index 10d61bf534..7a8fcd4c02 100644
--- a/Tests/UnitTests/Networking/ETagManagerTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/UnitTests/Networking/ETagManagerTests.swift
@@ -182,6 +182,49 @@ class ETagManagerTests: XCTestCase {
 
         expect(self.mockUserDefaults.mockValues.count) == 0
     }
+
+    func testReadingETagWithInvalidBodyFormatFails() {
+        /// The data that `ETagManager` serialized up until version 4.1.
+        struct OldWrapper: Encodable {
+
+            let eTag: String
+            let statusCode: Int
+            let responseObject: [String: AnyEncodable]
+
+            var asData: Data? {
+                return try? JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: self.asDictionary(),
+                                                   options: .prettyPrinted)
+            }
+
+        }
+
+        let eTag = "the_etag"
+        let url = urlForTest()
+        let request = URLRequest(url: url)
+        let cacheKey = url.absoluteString
+
+        let actualResponse = "response".data(using: .utf8)!
+
+        let wrapper = OldWrapper(eTag: eTag,
+                                 statusCode: HTTPStatusCode.success.rawValue,
+                                 responseObject: [
+                                    "response": AnyEncodable("cached")
+                                 ])
+        self.mockUserDefaults.mockValues[cacheKey] = wrapper.asData
+
+        let httpURLResponse = self.httpURLResponseForTest(url: url,
+                                                          eTag: eTag,
+                                                          statusCode: .notModified)
+
+        let response = eTagManager.httpResultFromCacheOrBackend(with: httpURLResponse,
+                                                                data: actualResponse,
+                                                                request: request,
+                                                                retried: true)
+        expect(response).toNot(beNil())
+        expect(response?.statusCode) == .notModified
+        expect(response?.body) == actualResponse
+    }
+
 }
 
 private extension ETagManagerTests {