Hackers steal millions of Gucci, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen customer records

Hackers stole private data of millions of Gucci, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen customers, including names, contacts, addresses, and spending details.\n\nAttackers stole millions of customers’ personal data, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and details of their spending at luxury stores worldwide. The BBC reports some customers spent up to 6,000, raising concern that leaked data could make “high spenders” targets for further scams.\n\nThe BBC revealed that the group behind the attack is once again Shiny Hunters, which shared a small sample of the stolen data containing thousands of customer details with the United Kingdom’s public service broadcaster. According to BBC, the data appear to be genuine.\n\n“The cyber criminal behind the attack calls themselves Shiny Hunters.” reported BBC. “They claim to have data linked to 7.4m unique email addresses which suggests the total number of individual victims could be similar.”\n\nRead the full article here.