Data Breaches Hit High-End Retailers: Adidas, Victoria's Secret, and Cartier Under Attack
Unauthorized individuals gain access to confidential customer information from Adidas, Victoria's Secret, and Cartier.
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Gotta secure your data to keep the cyber thugs at bay! After infiltrations at The North Face and Marks & Spencer, luxury giants are finding themselves under a similar siege. Adidas, Victoria's Secret, and Cartier are now on this unwanted list, after experiencing data breaches that, fortunately, did not expose payment information.
Fancy jewelry brand Cartier, a lustrous addition to the Swiss luxury conglomerate Richemont portfolio, has suffered a data breach, with names and emails being stolen from their website. However, the criminals left their booty sans credit card and password data. In response, Cartier has ramped up its security and enlisted external experts to help tighten the fortress.
Speaking about Adidas, the renowned sportswear powerhouse out of Bavaria, Germany, is dealing with "unauthorized third parties" that sneaked into its customer data via an external customer service provider. Thankfully, financial data like passwords and credit card details remained undisturbed. The tea spilled mainly includes contact info such as names, emails, phone numbers, gender, and birthdates.
In another corner of the high-end retail world, Victoria's Secret stopped traffic on their website and online store following a cyberattack in late May. This turbulence might cause a delay in their Q2 results and further postpone the release of their Q1 earnings, initially slated for June 5.
Previously, British retailer Marks & Spencer and The North Face (owned by the U.S. apparel group VF Corporation) also found themselves in the crosshairs of hackers.
Quick Facts:
- Adidas: Data breach involves contact info but no financial data. They’ve engaged cybersecurity experts and have informed affected consumers and authorities in compliance with GDPR and CCPA.
- Victoria's Secret: Recent data breach may impact the company’s Q2 results.
- Cartier: Recent data breach involved names and emails, but no passwords or credit card data were compromised.
Sources: ntv.de, mpa/rts
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It seems hackers are relentless, striking yet again at Adidas, Victoria's Secret, and Cartier in a series of data breaches. With Adidas facing an intrusion via an external provider, only contact information was compromised, no financial data exposed. Victoria's Secret's Q2 results might be delayed due to a recent cyberattack. Meanwhile, Cartier was hit, but fortunately, no credit card or password data was stolen, just names and emails. The experts are in, heightening security for these luxury brands. Let's hope these incidents spur a more robust focus on cybersecurity and data protection in technology and general-news spheres, reducing crime-and-justice threats in the future.
