Harrods has warned some of its customers that their personal data may have been taken in an IT systems breach, months after it was targeted by a suspected cyber attack in May.
The luxury department store said customer names and contact details have been taken after one of its third-party provider systems was compromised. It said the affected e-commerce customers have been informed and that the impacted data is “limited to basic personal identifiers”, adding that passwords or payment details were not affected in the breach.
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Source: MSN News
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