Security News > 2020 > October > Barnes & Noble Informs Customers of Cyberattack
Bookselling giant Barnes & Noble has sent email notifications to its customers to inform them of a recent cyberattack.
A Fortune 1000 company, Barnes & Noble is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.
In the email to its users, Barnes & Noble revealed that it discovered the breach on October 10, 2020, and that unauthorized actors managed to access certain corporate systems, likely compromising some user information.
The compromised systems also store transaction history, which includes purchase information related to books and other products bought from Barnes & Noble.
The company says users should not fear that their emails have been compromised, although email addresses might have been exposed, meaning that users could receive unsolicited messages.