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Eyeware retailer Warby Parker forces password reset; notifies 198,000 customers of credential stuffing attack

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Dissent

Sam Woods reports:

Eyewear retailer Warby Parker announced Thursday that it had suffered a cybersecurity breach that may have affected up to 198,000 customers.
Hackers accessed customer usernames and passwords from unrelated cyber break-ins at other companies, according to a Warby Parker news release. The hackers then used that information to try to gain unauthorized access to client data at several Internet retailers, including Warby Parker.

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