Kathryn Magann reports:
Bookstore chain Dymocks has warned customers of a possible data breach that could lead to their personal information being leaked on the dark web.
In an email sent to members on Friday, the bookseller’s managing director, Mark Newman, said a potential hack was detected two days earlier.
Read more at Bega District News.
Their fears that data may be on the dark web seem to have some foundation, but the data also appear to be available on clearnet. DataBreaches found a listing for 1.2 million customer records allegedly from Dymock’s. The csv file has the following headers:
customer_id_,first_name,last_name,FullName,gender,email_address_,mobile_country_,mobile_number_,dob,postal_street_1_,postal_street_2_,state_,postal_code_,city_,gold_expiry_date,AccountStatus,account_status,member_created_date,card_ranking
The data was leaked on September 3.