"Cyber criminals have stolen the private details of potentially millions of Balenciaga, Gucci and Alexander McQueen customers in an attack. The stolen data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses and the total amount spent in the luxury stores around the world. Kering, the parent company of the luxury brands, has confirmed the breach and says it disclosed the incident to the relevant data protection authorities."
"The cyber criminal behind the attack calls themselves Shiny Hunters. They claim to have data linked to 7.4m unique email addresses which suggests the total number of individual victims could be similar. A small sample shared with the BBC as proof contained thousands of customer details which appear to be genuine. Once analysed the files were deleted. Shiny Hunters appears to be acting alone and told the BBC over Telegram chat that they breached the luxury brands in April through Kering."
"One of the details in the stolen data is "Total Sales" which shows how much money a person has spent with each brand. Some customers are shown to have spent more than $10,000 with a handful spending $30,000-$86,000 in stores in the small sample analysed by the BBC. This information is particularly concerning for victims as it could lead to high spenders being targeted by secondary hacks and scams if the hacker decides to leak the information to other criminals."
Kering confirmed a data breach affecting Balenciaga, Gucci and Alexander McQueen customers, with stolen fields including names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses and total amounts spent. The company reported the incident to data protection authorities and stated that payment card details were not taken. The attacker, calling themselves Shiny Hunters, claims a dataset linked to 7.4 million unique email addresses and provided a small sample that appeared genuine before deleting the files. The stolen records include a "Total Sales" field showing high spenders, increasing the risk of targeted secondary scams. Kering emailed affected customers and denies ransom payments.
Read at www.bbc.com
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