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Hackers hit Lakeland with “sophisticated and sustained attack”, passwords reset

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Dissent

Graham Cluley reports:

Kitchenware store Lakeland has emailed customers telling them that hackers managed to gain unauthorised access to its web systems and databases late last week.

Although the company has confirmed that hackers accessed “two encrypted databases”, it has been unable to ascertain whether information was stolen.

Read more on his blog.

 


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