Thieves have made off with personally identifying data on 24 million customers of online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos. Announcing the hack on Sunday, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said that the thieves broke into the company’s system through one of its servers in Kentucky. Although customers’ personal data was stolen, the secure database that stores their credit card and other payment data remained untouched, Hsieh said. Zappos is emailing its customers and has contacted in the FBI. The company has also expired and reset all user passwords, and it will help customers create new ones.
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Data Plunderers Run Off With Zappos Customer Info
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 16, 2012 11:56 AMThieves have made off with personally identifying data on 24 million customers of online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos. Announcing the hack on Sunday, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said that the thieves broke into the company’s system through one of its servers in Kentucky. Although customers’ personal data was stolen, the secure database that stores their credit card and other payment data remained untouched, Hsieh said. Zappos is emailing its customers and has contacted in the FBI. The company has also expired and reset all user passwords, and it will help customers create new ones.