Harrods’ customers details stolen in data breach
Harrods warned some customers that their personal data may have been taken in a IT system violation months after being targeted by a suspicious cyber attack in May.
Luxury store, one of the third -party provider systems after the endanger of customer names and contact information, he said.
He added that affected e-commerce customers were informed and that the affected data were “limited to basic personal identifiers” and that the passwords or payment details are not affected by the violation.
Harrods said in a statement, “We have reported that one of our third-party providers have been taken from one of the systems of the personal data of some Harrods e-commerce customers.
Iz We have reported that affected customers are limited to basic personal identifiers, including the name and contact information of the affected personal data, but did not contain account passwords or payment information.
“The third party confirmed that this was an isolated event and we work closely with them to ensure that all appropriate operations have been done. We informed all relevant authorities.”
Four months after saying that the large retailer, the big brand Marx & Spencer and the cooperative group has recently endured similar events, the great retailer has been fighting against “unauthorized access to some systems”.
The store said he had to restrict internet access in May as a precautionary measure.
A spokesman said the last third -party violation was not dependent on the attack earlier this year.
In July, four people, including two 19-year-old men, a 17-year-old male and a 20-year-old woman, continued to question more, for damaging cyber attacks against Marx & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods.
According to the National Crime Agency, they were arrested for participating in the activities of an organized crime group, which was associated with blackmail, money laundering, computer abuse law and participated in the activities of an organized crime group.
M&S stopped online sales for about six weeks after the ransom software attack and warned that the incident could cost around £ 300 million. Cooperative, during the summer, the attack on the activity costs 206 million pounds, he said.
Other major British companies have also experienced cyber attacks this year, including Jaguar Land Rover, which has stopped production since August.
The car manufacturer announced that production will not continue until the earliest October at the beginning of this week.
In August, a report revealed that England was the third most targeted country for malicious software after seeing more than 100 million cyber attacks in the last three months.
Research from Cyber Security Company NordvPN found that Britain was only behind the US and Canada in terms of malicious software activity, where the British had an increase of 7 percent between the first and second quarter of the year.
