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Digital storage giant Western Digital confirmed that an "Unauthorized third party" gained access to its systems and stole personal information belonging to the company's online store customers. "This information included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers," the San Jose-based company said in a disclosure last week.
The Western Digital online store is offline as a result of the "Network security incident" it suffered in March 2023. "This information included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers. In addition, the database contained, in encrypted format, hashed and salted passwords and partial credit card numbers," Western Digital informed.
Western Digital has taken its store offline and sent customers data breach notifications after confirming that hackers stole sensitive personal information in a March cyberattack. The company emailed the data breach notifications late Friday afternoon, warning that customers' data was stored in a Western Digital database stolen during the attack.
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The leak comes after the threat actor warned Western Digital on April 17th that they would hurt them until they "Cannot stand anymore" if a ransom was not paid. On March 26th, Western Digital suffered a cyberattack where threat actors breached its internal network and stole company data.
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Business process outsourcing and tech services player Capita says there is proof that some customer data was scooped up by cyber baddies that broke into its systems late last month. "As a result of the interruption, the incident was significantly restricted, potentially affecting around 4 percent of Capita's server estate. There is currently some evidence of limited data exfiltration from the small proportion of affected server estate which might include customer, supplier or colleague data."
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