Customers’ credit card details stolen from Cotton Traders website
Posted by Anne in Data Protection, Privacy at June 13th, 2008
The BBC reports:
The credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing firm Cotton Traders were stolen following a hack of its website…
The firm has not confirmed the size of the breach but it has acknowledged the site was attacked early this year.
It said Barclaycard was contacted as soon as it learned of the attack, and most cards were stopped in January.
The payment industry’s trade body said it was serious because hackers accessed details for “card not present” fraud… a specialist police force was investigating…
…customer addresses were also stolen in the hack.
